Hidden inside skile is one standout: likes, a five-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
SKILE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LIKES (verb), < LIKE, to find pleasant, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
likes is the highest-scoring word from skile, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling skile produces exactly one five-letter word: likes. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in skile produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, like, and silk. For points, the strongest plays are elks, ilks, leks, like, sike, and silk — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skile turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie and ski. For points, the strongest plays are elk, ilk, kis, lek, and ski — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in skile 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is likes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from skile 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 skile produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 9 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.