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STAKE

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What STAKE Means

  1. noun: (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something“they have interests all over the world”
  2. noun: a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)“a pair of posts marked the goal”
  3. verb: put at risk“I will stake my good reputation for this”
  4. verb: place a bet on“Which horse are you backing?”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

STAKE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 A1 K5 E1.

Anagrams of STAKE (5)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In STAKE

58 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

4 letter words (24)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (10)

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