Hidden inside snakes sit skeans, snakes, and sneaks, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skeans, snakes, and sneaks tie for the highest Scrabble score from snakes at 10 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in snakes: two come from rearranging its letters, and snakes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with snakes and sneaks. For points, the strongest plays are skeans, snakes, and sneaks — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in snakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sakes, snake, and sneak. For points, the strongest plays are kanes, sakes, skean, snake, and sneak — 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 snakes produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, sake, sane, sank, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are asks, kaes, kane, keas, kens, sake, sank, and skas — 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 snakes turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ass, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kae, kas, kea, ken, and ska — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in snakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. 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 snakes 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.
snakes 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record nine senses for snakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
snakes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing snakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skeans, snakes, and sneaks, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from snakes 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 snakes produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.