shakes needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shakes is the highest-scoring word from shakes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in shakes — and it is shakes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, sakes, and shake. For points, the strongest plays are hakes and shake — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shakes produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, sake, and seas. For points, the strongest play is hake — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shakes turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ask, ass, has, sea, and she. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kae, kas, kea, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. 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 shakes 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.
shakes 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.
Dictionaries record fifteen senses for shakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
shakes is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shakes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shakes 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 shakes produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.