Hidden inside takers sit skater, staker, strake and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skater, staker, strake and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from takers at 10 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in takers: four come from rearranging its letters, and takers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are skater, staker, strake, streak, and takers, 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, skate, stare, steak, takes, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are asker, eskar, karst, karts, ketas, rakes, saker, skate, stake, stark, steak, taker, takes, teaks, and treks — 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 takers produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rate, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are arks, kaes, kart, kats, keas, keta, rake, sake, sark, skat, take, task, teak, and trek — 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 takers turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ask, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ask, kae, kas, kat, kea, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takers. 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 takers 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.
takers 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 takers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for takers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
takers is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing takers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skater, staker, strake, streak, and takers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from takers 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 takers produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.