Hidden inside reeky sit keyer, reeky, and rekey, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
keyer, reeky, and rekey tie for the highest Scrabble score from reeky at 12 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in reeky: two come from rearranging its letters, and reeky 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 keyer, reeky, and rekey, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reeky produces 6 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ryke and yerk, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in reeky 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.
reeky 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.
reeky is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reeky unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are keyer, reeky, and rekey, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reeky 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 reeky produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.