stalks needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stalks is the highest-scoring word from stalks, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in stalks — and it is stalks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stalks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, salts, talks, and tasks. For points, the strongest plays are skats, stalk, talks, and tasks — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stalks produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, last and salt. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including asks, talk and task.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in stalks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stalks 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.
stalks 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 stalks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
stalks is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stalks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stalks, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stalks 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 stalks produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.