Hidden inside shakers sit kashers and shakers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SKAHERS, SSHAREK or ARKESHS and you get the same 7 letters as SHAKERS: so the words from SHAKERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
kashers and shakers tie for the highest Scrabble score from shakers at 14 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in shakers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shakers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kashers and shakers, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shakers turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rashes, shakes, shares, and sharks. For points, the strongest plays are kasher, shaker, shakes, and sharks — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shakers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, hears and sakes. For points, the strongest plays are hakes, harks, shake, and shark — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shakers produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, ears and eras. For points, the strongest plays are hake and hark — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shakers turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash and ask. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shakers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and eh. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in shakers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shakers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
shakers 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 one sense for shakers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
shakers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shakers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kashers and shakers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shakers 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 shakers produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.