Hidden inside raked sit drake and raked, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drake and raked tie for the highest Scrabble score from raked at 10 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in raked: one comes from rearranging its letters, and raked itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drake and raked, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in raked produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dark, dear, and read. For points, the strongest plays are dark and drek — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
23 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in raked plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in raked 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.
raked 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in raked carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
raked is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raked unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drake and raked, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raked 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 raked produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.