Hidden inside pokes sit pokes and spoke, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pokes and spoke tie for the highest Scrabble score from pokes at 11 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in pokes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pokes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: pokes and spoke, worth 11 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pokes produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poke and pose. For points, the strongest plays are keps, kops, poke, and skep — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pokes turns up 11 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kep and kop, each worth 9 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 pokes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ok and so. For points, the strongest play is ok — 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 pokes 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.
pokes 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 ten senses for pokes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pokes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pokes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pokes and spoke, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pokes 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 pokes produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.