Hidden inside strakes sit skaters, stakers, strakes and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skaters, stakers, strakes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from strakes at 11 points. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in strakes: three come from rearranging its letters, and strakes 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 skaters, stakers, strakes, and streaks, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strakes turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skates, stares, and steaks. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including skates, steaks and askers.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, rests and sakes. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including sakes, skate and steak.
Rearranging the letters in strakes produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, asks and ears. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including asks, sake and take.
Unscrambling strakes turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ask. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in strakes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in strakes 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.
strakes 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 strakes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for strakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
strakes is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skaters, stakers, strakes, and streaks, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strakes 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 strakes produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.