Unscramble ASKEW and you have 43 words, ASKEW itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 12 points: WAKES and WEKAS. The best shorter words score 11: 8 of them, WAKE, WEAK and SKEW included. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Words from ASKEW by length: 3 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 17 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of ASKEW but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AS · ending in W · all 5-letter words
The meaning of ASKEW, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. ASKEW is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASKEW itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 43) | 31 | 43 | 30 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 12 of them: AWKS, EWKS, KAWS, SKAW, AWK, EWK, KAW, AKES, AKE, WASE, EAS and EA. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: EW.
Each word below uses all the letters of ASKEW and one more.