Hidden inside takare is one standout: karate, a six-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TAKARE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to KARATE (noun), a Japanese art of self-defense, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
karate is the highest-scoring word from takare, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling takare produces exactly one six-letter word: karate. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takare. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are karat and taker, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in takare produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, rate, take, and tear. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including take, arak and kart.
Unscrambling takare turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ark, kae, kat, and kea — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in takare plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in takare 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is karate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from takare 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 takare produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.