skew needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skew is the highest-scoring word from skew, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in skew — and it is skew itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skew produces exactly one three-letter word: sew. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skew. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ew and we, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in skew and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
skew 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 skew carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for skew. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
skew is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skew unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is skew, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from skew 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 skew produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 1 three-letter word and 3 two-letter words.