ukases needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ukases is the highest-scoring word from ukases, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in ukases — and it is ukases itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ukases produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, sake and seas. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including asks, sake and auks.
Unscrambling ukases turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ass and sea. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including ask, auk and kae.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ukases plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ukases 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.
ukases 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 ukases. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ukases is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ukases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ukases, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ukases 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 ukases produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.