Hidden inside lankest sit anklets and lankest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anklets and lankest tie for the highest Scrabble score from lankest at 11 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lankest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lankest 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 anklets and lankest, 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 lankest turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ankles. For points, the strongest plays are ankles, anklet, latkes, and sklent — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lankest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ankle, lakes, lanes, leaks, leans, least, and skate. For points, the strongest plays are ankle, kales, kanes, kelts, ketas, knelt, lakes, latke, leaks, skate, skean, slake, slank, snake, sneak, stake, stalk, stank, steak, taken, takes, talks, tanks, and teaks — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lankest produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, lake, lane, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are elks, kaes, kale, kane, kats, keas, kelt, kens, kent, keta, lake, lank, leak, leks, sake, sank, skat, take, talk, tank, task, and teak — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lankest turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ask, ate, eat, let, net, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ask, elk, kae, kas, kat, kea, ken, lek, ska, and tsk — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lankest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. 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 lankest 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.
lankest 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
lankest is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lankest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anklets and lankest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lankest 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 lankest produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.