Hidden inside rakesh sit kasher and shaker, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RAKESH isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to KASHER and SHAKER.
kasher and shaker tie for the highest Scrabble score from rakesh at 13 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling rakesh turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kasher and shaker, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rakesh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hears, shake, share, and shark. For points, the strongest plays are hakes, harks, shake, and shark — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rakesh produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras and hear. For points, the strongest plays are hake and hark — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rakesh turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash and ask. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rakesh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and eh. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in rakesh plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rakesh 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kasher and shaker, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rakesh 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 rakesh produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.