Hidden inside winks sit swink and winks, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
swink and winks tie for the highest Scrabble score from winks at 12 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in winks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and winks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with winks. For points, the strongest plays are swink and winks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in winks produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, sink, skin, wink, and wins. For points, the strongest play is wink — 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 winks turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, sin, ski, and win. For points, the strongest plays are ink, kin, kis, and ski — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in winks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — 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 winks 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.
winks 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 seven senses for winks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
winks is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing winks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swink and winks, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from winks 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 winks produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.