Hidden inside stakes sit skates, stakes, and steaks, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skates, stakes, and steaks tie for the highest Scrabble score from stakes at 10 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in stakes: two come from rearranging its letters, and stakes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skates and steaks. For points, the strongest plays are skates, stakes, and steaks — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sakes, seats and skate. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including sakes, skate and steak.
Rearranging the letters in stakes produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, east and eats. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including asks, sake and take.
Unscrambling stakes turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ass and ate. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including ask, kae and kas.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in stakes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stakes 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.
stakes 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 stakes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for stakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
stakes is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skates, stakes, and steaks, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stakes 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 stakes produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.