Unscramble BRAKES to get 113 words. BRAKES itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. BRAKES has 3 anagrams here, BAKERS, BREAKS and KEBARS, scoring 12 like BRAKES itself. The best shorter words score 11: 12 of them, BREAK, BAKER and BRAKE included. It has 6 letters, 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from BRAKES split into 4 with 6 letters, 26 with 5, 41 with 4, 31 with 3 and 11 with 2.
41 4-letter words from BRAKES; 11 of them share the top score of 10. BASE, BEAR and BARS are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of BRAKES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with BR · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
BRAKES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. BRAKES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAKES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 113) | 91 | 113 | 86 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 22 of them: BRAKS, KRABS, BRAK, KEBS, KRAB, KEB, KESAR, REAKS, SKEAR, AKES, ERKS, KSAR and 10 more. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: BERKS, BERK, BAES, BAE and BES.
These 11 words take every letter of BRAKES plus a single extra one.