Hidden inside redken is one standout: kerned, a six-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble REKEND, KNEERD or NKEDER and you get the same 6 letters as REDKEN: so the words from REDKEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
REDKEN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to KERNED (verb, form of kern), to be formed with a projecting typeface, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
kerned is the highest-scoring word from redken, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling redken produces exactly one six-letter word: kerned. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redken. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kneed, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in redken produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, knee, need, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are deke, drek, and eked — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redken. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in redken plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in redken 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 play from these letters is kerned, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from redken 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 redken produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.