Hidden inside strike sit kiters, strike, and trikes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kiters, strike, and trikes tie for the highest Scrabble score from strike at 10 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in strike: two come from rearranging its letters, and strike itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strike. For points, the strongest plays are kiters, strike, and trikes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kites, skirt, tires, and tries. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including kites, skirt and keirs.
Rearranging the letters in strike produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kite, kits and rest. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including kite, kits and risk.
Unscrambling strike turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit and set. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including kit, ski and irk.
21 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in strike plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in strike 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.
strike 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 strike carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record twenty-eight senses for strike. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
strike is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strike unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kiters, strike, and trikes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strike 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 strike produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.