Hidden inside shitakes sit shakiest and shitakes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shakiest and shitakes tie for the highest Scrabble score from shitakes at 15 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in shitakes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shitakes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shakiest and shitakes, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shitakes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is shitake, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shitakes turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shakes, shiest, skates, and steaks. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including shakes, kithes and sheiks.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shitakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, hates and heats. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including hikes, shake and haiks.
Rearranging the letters in shitakes produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, east and eats. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including hike, haik and hake.
Unscrambling shitakes turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ask and ass. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shitakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in shitakes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shitakes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
shitakes 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.
shitakes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shitakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shakiest and shitakes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shitakes 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 shitakes produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.