Hidden inside steplike sit spikelet and steplike, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
spikelet and steplike tie for the highest Scrabble score from steplike at 14 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in steplike: one comes from rearranging its letters, and steplike itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are spikelet and steplike, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in steplike produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kelpies and skelpit, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling steplike turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are keleps and kelpie, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steplike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with keeps, kites, likes, peels, piles, sleep, and slept. For points, the strongest plays are keeps, kelep, kelps, kepis, peeks, pekes, pikes, skelp, and spike — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in steplike produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, keep, kept, kite, kits, lets, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are keep, kelp, kepi, keps, kept, kips, peek, peke, pike, skep, and skip — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling steplike turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit, let, lie, lip, lit, and pee. For points, the strongest plays are kep and kip — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steplike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in steplike plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steplike and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
steplike 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
steplike is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steplike unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are spikelet and steplike, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steplike 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 steplike produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.