Hidden inside tankas sit askant and tankas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
askant and tankas tie for the highest Scrabble score from tankas at 10 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tankas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tankas 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 askant and tankas, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tankas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stank and tanks. For points, the strongest plays are kanas, katas, stank, takas, tanka, and tanks — 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 tankas produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, sank, tank, tans, and task. For points, the strongest plays are kaas, kana, kata, kats, sank, skat, taka, tank, and task — 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 tankas turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ask, sat, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kas, kat, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tankas. 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 tankas 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.
tankas 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 two senses for tankas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tankas is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tankas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are askant and tankas, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tankas 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 tankas produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.