Hidden inside rakes sit asker, eskar, rakes and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asker, eskar, rakes and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rakes at 9 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in rakes: three come from rearranging its letters, and rakes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asker, eskar, rakes, and saker, 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 rakes produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, and sake. For points, the strongest plays are arks, kaes, keas, rake, sake, and sark — 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 rakes turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask, ear, era, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. 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.
33 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in rakes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rakes 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.
rakes 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 rakes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record nine senses for rakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
rakes is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asker, eskar, rakes, and saker, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rakes 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 rakes produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.