Hidden inside achiever sit achiever and chivaree, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
achiever and chivaree tie for the highest Scrabble score from achiever at 16 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in achiever: one comes from rearranging its letters, and achiever itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are achiever and chivaree, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in achiever produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with achieve and heavier. For points, the strongest plays are achieve and archive — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in achiever. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carve, chair, cheer, and reach. For points, the strongest play is chive — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in achiever produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cave and each. For points, the strongest plays are have and hive — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling achiever turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and car. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and vac — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in achiever. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ah, eh, ha and 2 more, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in achiever plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in achiever and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
achiever is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for achiever. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
achiever is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing achiever unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are achiever and chivaree, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from achiever earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in achiever produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.