Hidden inside skate sit ketas, skate, stake and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ketas, skate, stake and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from skate at 9 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words hiding in skate: five come from rearranging its letters, and skate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skate, steak, and takes. For points, the strongest plays are ketas, skate, stake, steak, takes, and teaks — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in skate produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, sake, seat, take, task, and teas. For points, the strongest plays are kaes, kats, keas, keta, sake, skat, take, task, and teak — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling skate turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ate, eat, sat, sea, set, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kae, kas, kat, kea, ska, and tsk — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. 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 skate 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.
skate 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 skate carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for skate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
skate is one of six five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ketas, skate, stake, steak, takes, and teaks, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skate 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 skate produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.