Hidden inside rankest sit rankest and tankers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rankest and tankers tie for the highest Scrabble score from rankest at 11 points. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in rankest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rankest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rankest and tankers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rankest turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are skater, staker, strake and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rankest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, rates and rents. For points, 29 words tie at 9 points, including skate, snake and sneak.
Rearranging the letters in rankest produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and earn. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including sake, sank and take.
Unscrambling rankest turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rankest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rankest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rankest and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
rankest 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.
rankest is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rankest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rankest and tankers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rankest 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 rankest produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.