Hidden inside shank sit ankhs, hanks, khans and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ankhs, hanks, khans and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from shank at 12 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in shank: three come from rearranging its letters, and shank 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 ankhs, hanks, khans, and shank, 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 shank produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sank. For points, the strongest plays are ankh, hank, and khan — each 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 shank turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ask, has, and nah. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kas, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shank. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, ha, 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 shank 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.
shank 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 shank carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record nine senses for shank. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
shank is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shank unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ankhs, hanks, khans, and shank, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shank 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 shank produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.