Hidden inside soaks sit askos and soaks, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
askos and soaks tie for the highest Scrabble score from soaks at 9 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in soaks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and soaks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soaks. For points, the strongest plays are askos and soaks — 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 soaks produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks and soak. For points, the strongest plays are asks, koas, koss, oaks, okas, skas, and soak — 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 soaks turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask and ass. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kas, koa, kos, oak, oka, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soaks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ok, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each 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 soaks 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.
soaks 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 soaks carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for soaks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
soaks is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soaks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are askos and soaks, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from soaks 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 soaks produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.