Hidden inside slackest sit slackest and tackless, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slackest and tackless tie for the highest Scrabble score from slackest at 14 points. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in slackest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slackest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are slackest and tackless, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slackest produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castles and tackles. For points, the strongest plays are caskets and tackles — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slackest turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castle, scales, skates, steaks, steals, and tackle. For points, the strongest plays are casket, slacks, stacks, and tackle — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slackest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cakes, cases, casts, class, lacks, lakes, and lasts. For points, the strongest plays are cakes, calks, casks, lacks, sacks, slack, stack, and tacks — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slackest produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, asks, cake, case, cast, cats, and east. For points, the strongest plays are cake, calk, cask, lack, sack, and tack — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slackest turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ask, ass, ate, cat, eat, and let. For points, the strongest play is ack — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slackest. 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 slackest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
slackest 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
slackest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slackest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are slackest and tackless, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slackest 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 slackest produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.