Hidden inside strokes sit stokers and strokes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stokers and strokes tie for the highest Scrabble score from strokes at 11 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in strokes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and strokes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strokes. For points, the strongest plays are stokers and strokes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling strokes turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorest, stores, and stroke. For points, the strongest plays are skorts, stoker, stokes, storks, stroke, tokers, torsks, and trokes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strokes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, roses, sorts, and store. For points, the strongest plays are skort, sokes, stoke, stork, toker, tokes, torsk, treks, and troke — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in strokes produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rose, sets, sore, sort, toes, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are keto, kore, kors, koss, okes, soke, toke, trek, and tsks — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling strokes turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set and toe. For points, the strongest plays are kor, kos, oke, and tsk — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strokes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ok, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in strokes 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.
strokes 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 strokes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record sixteen senses for strokes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
strokes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strokes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stokers and strokes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strokes 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 strokes produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.