Unscramble TALAKS to get 58 words. TALAKS itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 10 points: KATALS. The best shorter words score 9: 7 of them, TALKS, STALK and KATAL included. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from TALAKS split into 2 with 6 letters, 11 with 5, 19 with 4, 18 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of TALAKS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with TA · ending in KS · all 6-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; KATAS, STALK, TAKAS and TALKS (9 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
TALAKS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TALAKS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 58) | 45 | 58 | 42 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
13 of the 58 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: KATALS, TALAKS, KATAL, LAKSA, TALAK, AKAS, KAAL, TAKS, AKA, TAK, TAALS, TAAL and 1 more. 3 of the 58 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TAKAS, SALAT and ATS.
These 2 words take every letter of TALAKS plus a single extra one.