Hidden inside tokes sit stoke and tokes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stoke and tokes tie for the highest Scrabble score from tokes at 9 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in tokes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tokes 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 stoke and tokes, 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 tokes produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toes. For points, the strongest plays are keto, okes, soke, and toke — 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 tokes turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set and toe. For points, the strongest plays are kos, oke, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tokes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ok, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is ok — 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 tokes 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.
tokes 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 tokes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tokes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tokes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tokes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stoke and tokes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tokes 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 tokes produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.