Unscramble HACEK and you have 26 words, HACEK itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. HACEK has 1 anagram here, CHEKA, scoring 14 like HACEK itself. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from HACEK by length: 2 with 5 letters, 6 with 4, 10 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of HACEK but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with HA · ending in EK · all 5-letter words
HACEK first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept HACEK, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HACEK itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 26) | 18 | 26 | 17 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
8 of the 26 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CHEKA, ACH, CHA, CHE, ECH, AKE, CH and EA. 1 of the 26 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: ACK.
With one more tile, the letters of HACEK spell the words below.