Hidden inside okays sit kayos and okays, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kayos and okays tie for the highest Scrabble score from okays at 12 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in okays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and okays itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kayos and okays, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in okays produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with okay, soak, and soya. For points, the strongest plays are kayo, kays, oaky, okay, yaks, and yoks — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling okays turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, say, sky, and soy. For points, the strongest plays are kay, sky, yak, and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in okays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ay, ok, oy, so, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in okays and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
okays 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 four senses for okays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
okays is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing okays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kayos and okays, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from okays 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 okays produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.