strikes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SETRISK, SKRITSE or ERIKSST and you get the same 7 letters as STRIKES: so the words from STRIKES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
strikes is the highest-scoring word from strikes, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in strikes — and it is strikes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strikes turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kisser, resist and sister. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including kisser, skirts and strike.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strikes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kites, rests and rises. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including kites, risks and skies.
Rearranging the letters in strikes produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kiss, kite and kits. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including kiss, kite and kits.
Unscrambling strikes turns up 24 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.
15 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in strikes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in strikes 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.
strikes 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 strikes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record twenty-eight senses for strikes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
strikes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strikes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is strikes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from strikes 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 strikes produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.