rankles needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rankles is the highest-scoring word from rankles, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in rankles — and it is rankles itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rankles turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ankles and learns. For points, the strongest plays are ankles, lakers, lanker, rankle, and slaker — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rankles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ankle, earns, lakes, lanes, laser, leaks, and leans. For points, the strongest plays are ankle, asker, eskar, kales, kanes, karns, kerns, knars, laker, lakes, larks, leaks, narks, rakes, ranks, saker, skean, slake, slank, snake, snark, and sneak — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rankles produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears, eras, lake, lane, leak, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are arks, elks, kaes, kale, kane, karn, keas, kens, kern, knar, lake, lank, lark, leak, leks, nark, rake, rank, sake, sank, and sark — 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 rankles turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask, ear, era, ran, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ask, elk, kae, kas, kea, ken, lek, and ska — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rankles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. 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 rankles 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.
rankles 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 2-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 rankles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
rankles is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rankles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rankles, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rankles 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 rankles produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.