Hidden inside spake sit peaks, spake, and speak, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peaks, spake, and speak tie for the highest Scrabble score from spake at 11 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in spake: two come from rearranging its letters, and spake itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with speak. For points, the strongest plays are peaks, spake, and speak — 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 spake produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, peas, and sake. For points, the strongest plays are keps, paks, peak, and skep — 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 spake turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ask, pea, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are kep and pak — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 spake 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.
spake 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.
spake is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peaks, spake, and speak, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spake 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 spake produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.