markka needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. Short on board space? karma, makar, and marka match that same 11-point score in Scrabble while spending only five letters each — efficient picks when the long play won't fit. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
markka, karma, makar and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from markka at 11 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in markka — and it is markka itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markka. If a familiar word is all you need, start with karma. For points, the strongest plays are karma, makar, and marka — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in markka plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in markka and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
markka is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for markka. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
markka is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing markka unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are markka, karma, makar, and marka, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from markka earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in markka produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.