Hidden inside yerkes sit kersey, keyers, and rekeys, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble KEERSY, KEYESR or SKREEY and you get the same 6 letters as YERKES: so the words from YERKES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
YERKES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to KERSEY, KEYERS and REKEYS.
kersey, keyers, and rekeys tie for the highest Scrabble score from yerkes at 13 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling yerkes turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kersey, keyers, and rekeys, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yerkes. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are keyer, reeky, rekey and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yerkes produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eyes, keys, and seek. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including keys, kyes and ryke.
Unscrambling yerkes turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, key and see. For points, the strongest plays are key, kye, and sky — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in yerkes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yerkes 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kersey, keyers, and rekeys, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yerkes 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 yerkes produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.