16 words come out when you unscramble YAKS, starting with YAKS itself: 11 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. YAKS has 1 anagram here, KAYS, scoring 11 like YAKS itself. SKY, YAK and KAY are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. 4 letters: 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from YAKS by length: 2 with 4 letters, 9 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of YAKS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with YA · ending in KS · all 4-letter words
The meaning of YAKS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept YAKS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| YAKS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 16) | 15 | 16 | 14 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: KY. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: YAS.
Each word below uses all the letters of YAKS and one more.