poking needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
poking is the highest-scoring word from poking, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in poking — and it is poking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poking. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gopik, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poking produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with king and pink. For points, the strongest plays are knop and pink — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poking turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, pig, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are kip and kop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in poking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in poking 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.
poking 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 3-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 poking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
poking is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is poking, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from poking 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 poking produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.