samekh needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
samekh is the highest-scoring word from samekh, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in samekh — and it is samekh itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in samekh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with makes, shake, and shame. For points, the strongest plays are hakes and shake — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in samekh produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, hams and make. For points, the strongest play is hake — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling samekh turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ask and ham. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in samekh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in samekh plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in samekh 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.
samekh 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 samekh carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for samekh. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
samekh is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing samekh unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is samekh, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from samekh 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 samekh produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.