peekaboo needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peekaboo is the highest-scoring word from peekaboo, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in peekaboo — and it is peekaboo itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peekaboo. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apeek, ebook, pekoe, and pooka, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in peekaboo produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bake, book, keep, and poke. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including bake, book and keep.
Unscrambling peekaboo turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, bee and boo. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including kab, kep and kob.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peekaboo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and ok. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in peekaboo plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in peekaboo and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
peekaboo 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 2-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 peekaboo. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
peekaboo is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peekaboo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is peekaboo, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from peekaboo 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 peekaboo produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.