Hidden inside talkies sit lakiest and talkies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lakiest and talkies tie for the highest Scrabble score from talkies at 11 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in talkies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and talkies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lakiest and talkies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling talkies turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alkies, alsike, latkes, likest, talkie, and tilaks, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alike, kites, lakes, leaks, least, and likes. For points, the strongest plays are alike, alkie, ikats, kails, kales, kelts, ketas, kilts, kites, lakes, latke, leaks, likes, sakti, skate, skite, slake, stake, stalk, steak, takes, talks, teaks, tikes, and tilak — 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 talkies produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, kite, kits, lake, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are elks, ikat, ilka, ilks, kaes, kail, kale, kats, keas, kelt, keta, kilt, kist, kite, kits, lake, leak, leks, like, sake, saki, sika, sike, silk, skat, skit, take, talk, task, teak, and tike — 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 talkies turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ate, eat, its, kit, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are ask, elk, ilk, kae, kas, kat, kea, kis, kit, lek, ska, ski, and tsk — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — 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 talkies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
talkies 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 one sense for talkies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
talkies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing talkies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lakiest and talkies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from talkies 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 talkies produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.