Hidden inside wreaks sit wakers and wreaks, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wakers and wreaks tie for the highest Scrabble score from wreaks at 13 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in wreaks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wreaks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are wakers and wreaks, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wreaks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swear, wakes, and wears. For points, the strongest plays are askew, waker, wakes, warks, wekas, and wreak — 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 wreaks produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, sake, wake, wars, weak, and wear. For points, the strongest plays are skew, wake, wark, 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 wreaks turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask, ear, era, raw, saw, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ask, kae, kas, kea, and ska — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wreaks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, 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 wreaks 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.
wreaks 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 wreaks carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for wreaks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
wreaks is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wreaks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wakers and wreaks, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wreaks 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 wreaks produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.