Hidden inside talks sit stalk and talks, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stalk and talks tie for the highest Scrabble score from talks at 9 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in talks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and talks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with talks. For points, the strongest plays are stalk and talks — 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 talks produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with last, salt, talk, and task. For points, the strongest plays are kats, skat, talk, 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 talks turns up 13 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talks. 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 talks 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.
talks 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for talks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
talks is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing talks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stalk and talks, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from talks 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 talks produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.