How many words with KES are there?

This page lists 276 words with KES from our dictionary, each shown with its Scrabble score.

Are these words valid in official Scrabble play?

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Words With KES

All 276 words in our dictionary that contain KES — sorted by Scrabble score.

276 words · number = Scrabble score · sorted highest score first

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Why KES words matter

Words containing KES are handy for Scrabble, Words with Friends and word puzzles — filter the list above by length to find the play you need.

A quick statistical tour

The shape of this list: 276 entries between 4 and 14 letters long, peaking at 8 letters with 56 words. Five-letter picks number 41 and seven-letter picks 40. Nothing here outscores JOHNNYCAKES — 30 points from 11 tiles on plain squares.

Chasing points? The best five entries here are JOHNNYCAKES (30), YOUTHQUAKES (30), MICROQUAKES (28), EARTHQUAKES (27), SPOKESMANSHIPS (27). The longest entry is COUNTERSTRIKES at 14 letters, and the average word here is worth about 16 points. The most useful tiles to hold for this list are E, K and S, which appear in 276, 276 and 276 of the words respectively.

Three easy picks from this list

LATKES is easy to keep in memory: 6 letters, 10 points, and no awkward tiles to hunt for.
LIKEST earns 10 points from just 6 tiles — and it is a word few opponents will bother to challenge.
When the rack looks hopeless, SLAKES (6 letters, 10 points) is the kind of quiet play that keeps a game moving.

Once those stick, file away the next tier too: SNAKES (10), STAKES (10), STOKES (10), TRIKES (10), TROKES (10).

KES as a vocabulary shortcut

Groups like this one reward a different kind of practice: pick five words of different lengths from the list above, write each in a sentence, and the KES pattern moves into long-term memory. It is also a quiet Scrabble edge — racks that spell KES plus common tiles come up constantly, and prepared players cash them in while others shuffle letters.

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