Hidden inside achromats sit achromats and trachomas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 350 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
achromats and trachomas tie for the highest Scrabble score from achromats at 16 points. The top 10 of 350 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in achromats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and achromats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are achromats and trachomas, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in achromats. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are achromat and trachoma, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in achromats produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stomach. For points, the strongest plays are chromas, matchas, and stomach — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling achromats turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, charms, charts, mascot, and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are charms, chroma, machos, matcha, and mochas — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in achromats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, atoms, carts, chaos, charm, chart, and chats. For points, the strongest plays are chams, charm, chasm, macho, machs, march, match, mocha, and schmo — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in achromats produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arms, arts, atom, cars, cart, and cash. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling achromats turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act, aha, arm, art, ash, and car. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hom, mho, och, and ohm — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in achromats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, ha, hm, and ho. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 achromats and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
achromats 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.
achromats is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing achromats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are achromats and trachomas, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from achromats 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 achromats produce 350 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.