Hidden inside stalk sit stalk and talks, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SLATK, KASLT or SAKLT and you get the same 5 letters as STALK: so the words from STALK listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
stalk and talks tie for the highest Scrabble score from stalk at 9 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in stalk: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stalk itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with talks. For points, the strongest plays are stalk and talks — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stalk produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with last, salt, talk, and task. For points, the strongest plays are kats, skat, talk, and task — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in stalk 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.
stalk 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 eight senses for stalk. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
stalk is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stalk unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stalk and talks, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stalk 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 stalk produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.