Hidden inside skeets sit skeets and steeks, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skeets and steeks tie for the highest Scrabble score from skeets at 10 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in skeets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and skeets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are skeets and steeks, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skeets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seeks. For points, the strongest plays are keets, seeks, skees, skeet, and steek — 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 skeets produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seek, sees, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are ekes, keet, seek, skee, and tsks — 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 skeets turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see and set. For points, the strongest plays are eek, eke, 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skeets. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are es, et, and te, each worth 2 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 skeets 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.
skeets 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 skeets carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for skeets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
skeets is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skeets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skeets and steeks, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skeets 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 skeets produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.