Hidden inside walkies sit sawlike and walkies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sawlike and walkies tie for the highest Scrabble score from walkies at 14 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in walkies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and walkies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sawlike and walkies, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alike and lakes. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including wakes, walks and askew.
Rearranging the letters in walkies produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lake, laws and leak. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including wake, walk and weak.
Unscrambling walkies turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, law and lie. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ski and elk.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw and ew. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in walkies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in walkies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
walkies is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
walkies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing walkies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sawlike and walkies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from walkies 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 walkies produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.