Hidden inside piques sit equips and piques, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
equips and piques tie for the highest Scrabble score from piques at 17 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in piques: one comes from rearranging its letters, and piques itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are equips and piques, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in piques. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are equip, pique, and quips, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in piques produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pies. For points, the strongest play is quip — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling piques turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pie, sip, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are qis and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in piques. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, up, and us. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in piques plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in piques 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.
piques 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 three senses for piques. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
piques is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing piques unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are equips and piques, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from piques 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 piques produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.