Hidden inside saker sit asker, eskar, rakes and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asker, eskar, rakes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from saker at 9 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in saker: three come from rearranging its letters, and saker 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 asker, eskar, rakes, and saker, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in saker produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, and sake. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including sake, arks and kaes.
Unscrambling saker turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask and ear. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
33 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in saker plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in saker 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.
saker 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in saker carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
saker is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asker, eskar, rakes, and saker, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saker 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 saker produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.