Hidden inside tanke is one standout: taken, a five-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TANKE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TAKEN (verb, form of take), to get possession of, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
taken is the highest-scoring word from tanke, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tanke produces exactly one five-letter word: taken. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tanke turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, the strongest plays are kae, kat, kea, and ken — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tanke 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is taken, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tanke 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 tanke produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 9 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.