Unscramble TAKS to get 18 words. TAKS itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. 3 anagrams of TAKS are on the page: KATS, SKAT and TASK, each 8 points. 6 shorter words score 7, among them ASK, KAT and TSK. The 4 letters split into 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Counting the words from TAKS by length: 4 with 4 letters, 9 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Trade one tile of TAKS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 4-letter words: starting with TA · ending in KS · all 4-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; KATS, SKAT and TASK (8 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: TAKS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAKS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 18) | 15 | 18 | 14 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 3 of them: TAKS, TAK and ST. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: ATS.
These 12 words take every letter of TAKS plus a single extra one.