Unscramble RANKE and you have 44 words, RANKE itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. RANKE has 3 anagrams here, ANKER, NAKER and NERKA, scoring 9 like RANKE itself. 10 shorter words score 8, among them RANK, KERN and RAKE. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from RANKE by length: 4 with 5 letters, 14 with 4, 16 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of RANKE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with RA · ending in KE · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; KANE, KARN, KERN, KNAR, NARK, RAKE and RANK (8 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: RANKE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RANKE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 44) | 30 | 44 | 29 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 14 of them: ANKER, NAKER, NERKA, RANKE, NERK, REAK, RENK, AKE, ERK, NEK, REAN, EAN and 2 more. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: NARE.
These 12 words take every letter of RANKE plus a single extra one.