Unscramble STAKE and you have 65 words, STAKE itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. STAKE has 5 anagrams here, KETAS, SKATE, STEAK, TAKES and TEAKS, scoring 9 like STAKE itself. 15 shorter words score 8, among them TAKE, TASK and SAKE. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Counting the words from STAKE by length: 6 with 5 letters, 25 with 4, 24 with 3 and 10 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of STAKE, with one letter different:
More 5-letter words: starting with ST · ending in KE · all 5-letter words
STAKE 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 STAKE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STAKE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 65) | 52 | 65 | 45 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 13 of them: AKES, KEST, KETS, SEKT, SKET, TAKS, AKE, KET, TAK, TAES, EAS, EA and 1 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: KETAS, KETA, TASE, ATS, EST, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of STAKE spell the words below.