Hidden inside stake sit ketas, skate, stake and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ketas, skate, stake and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from stake at 9 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words hiding in stake: five come from rearranging its letters, and stake itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skate, steak, and takes. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including skate, steak and takes.
Rearranging the letters in stake produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and sake. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including sake, take and task.
Unscrambling stake turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ate and eat. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including ask, kae and kas.
Swap a single tile in stake 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.
stake 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 stake carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record ten senses for stake. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
stake is one of six five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ketas, skate, stake, steak, takes, and teaks, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stake 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 stake produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.