Hidden inside quakes sit quakes and squeak, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quakes and squeak tie for the highest Scrabble score from quakes at 19 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in quakes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and quakes 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 quakes and squeak, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quakes. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is quake, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in quakes produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sake. For points, the strongest plays are auks, kaes, keas, kues, sake, skua, and ukes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling quakes turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are qua 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest play is ka — 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 quakes 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.
quakes 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 three senses for quakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
quakes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are quakes and squeak, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from quakes 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 quakes produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.