Unscramble YAKOW to get 28 words. YAKOW itself is a real word: 15 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are OKAY, KAYO and OAKY, 11 points each. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from YAKOW split into 1 with 5 letters, 3 with 4, 13 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Keep every letter of YAKOW but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with YA · ending in W · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; KAYO, OAKY and OKAY (11 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts YAKOW, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| YAKOW itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 28) | 22 | 28 | 20 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 6 of them: YAKOW, AWK, KAW, KOW, KY and KO. Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: OAKY and OK.
With one more tile, the letters of YAKOW spell the words below.