Unscramble SAMEKS and you have 61 words, SAMEKS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
S1A1M34E1K5S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SAMEKS split into 1 with 6 letters, 11 with 5, 20 with 4, 20 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of SAMEKS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SA · ending in KS · all 6-letter words
What SAMEKS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SAMEKS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAMEKS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 61) | 46 | 61 | 44 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
15 of the 61 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: KASME, MAKS, KAM, MAK, AKES, AKE, SAMES, AMES, MASE, SAMS, AME, SAM and 3 more. 2 of the 61 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MASES and MES.
With one more tile, the letters of SAMEKS spell the words below.