Hidden inside weka sit wake, weak, and weka, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wake, weak, and weka tie for the highest Scrabble score from weka at 11 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in weka: two come from rearranging its letters, and weka itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wake and weak. For points, the strongest plays are wake, weak, and weka — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling weka turns up 4 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kae and kea, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weka. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aw, ew, and we. 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 weka and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
weka 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 weka carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for weka. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
weka is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weka unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wake, weak, and weka, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from weka 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 weka produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.