Unscramble LEEKS and you have 29 words, LEEKS itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: KEELS and SLEEK. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
L12E1E1K5S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from LEEKS by length: 3 with 5 letters, 14 with 4, 9 with 3 and 3 with 2.
Keep every letter of LEEKS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LE · ending in KS · all 5-letter words
What LEEKS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LEEKS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEEKS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 29) | 26 | 29 | 25 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SELE, SLEE and EE, 3 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: EEK.
Each word below uses all the letters of LEEKS and one more.