achieves needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
achieves is the highest-scoring word from achieves, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in achieves — and it is achieves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in achieves produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with achieve. For points, the strongest plays are achieve, chevies, and seviche — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling achieves turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chives, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in achieves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caves, cease, chase, and shave. For points, the strongest plays are chive and schav — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in achieves produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case, cash, cave, each, ease, eves, and have. For points, the strongest plays are have, hive, and shiv — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling achieves turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, eve, has, his, ice, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and vac — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in achieves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, hi, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in achieves 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.
achieves 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 achieves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
achieves is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing achieves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is achieves, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from achieves 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 achieves produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.