Unscramble DOUKS and you have 32 words, DOUKS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 10 points: KUDOS. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
D2O1U12K5S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DOUKS split into 2 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 14 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of DOUKS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with DO · ending in KS · all 5-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by KUDOS (10 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: DOUKS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUKS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 32) | 22 | 32 | 20 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 10 of them: DOUKS, DOUK, OUKS, OUK, KO, DSO, SUD, UDS, OUS and OU. Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: SUK and OK.
With one more tile, the letters of DOUKS spell the words below.