Hidden inside takas sit katas and takas, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
katas and takas tie for the highest Scrabble score from takas at 9 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in takas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and takas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are katas and takas, 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 takas produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with task. For points, the strongest plays are kaas, kata, kats, skat, taka, and task — 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 takas turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kas, kat, ska, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — 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 takas and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
takas is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for takas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
takas is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing takas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are katas and takas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from takas 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 takas produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.