Unscramble AKES and you have 18 words, AKES itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. AKES has 3 anagrams here, KAES, KEAS and SAKE, scoring 8 like AKES itself. The best shorter words score 7: 6 of them, ASK, KEA and KAS included. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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By length, the words from AKES split into 4 with 4 letters, 9 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Trade one tile of AKES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 4-letter words: starting with AK · ending in ES · all 4-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; KAES, KEAS and SAKE (8 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts AKES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 18) | 14 | 18 | 14 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
4 of the 18 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AKES, AKE, EAS and EA.
These 12 words take every letter of AKES plus a single extra one.