Hidden inside skates sit skates, stakes, and steaks, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skates, stakes, and steaks tie for the highest Scrabble score from skates at 10 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in skates: two come from rearranging its letters, and skates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skates and steaks. For points, the strongest plays are skates, stakes, and steaks — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sakes, seats and skate. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including sakes, skate and steak.
Rearranging the letters in skates produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, east and eats. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including asks, sake and take.
Unscrambling skates turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ass and ate. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including ask, kae and kas.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in skates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in skates 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.
skates 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 skates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for skates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
skates is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skates, stakes, and steaks, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skates 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 skates produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.