Hidden inside aitches sit achiest and aitches, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
achiest and aitches tie for the highest Scrabble score from aitches at 12 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in aitches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aitches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are achiest and aitches, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aitches turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheats and itches. For points, the strongest plays are chaise, chaste, cheats, ethics, itches, sachet, scathe, and taches — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aitches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chase, chats, cheat, chest, hates, heats, and teach. For points, the strongest plays are aches, aitch, caths, chais, chase, chats, cheat, chest, chias, chits, ethic, sitch, stich, tache, tachs, teach, techs, and theca — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aitches produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case, cash, cast, cats, chat, and each. For points, the strongest plays are ache, cash, cath, chai, chat, chia, chis, chit, each, echt, etch, ichs, itch, tach, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aitches turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ash, ate, cat, eat, has, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aitches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and hi. 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 aitches and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
aitches 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in aitches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
aitches is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aitches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are achiest and aitches, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aitches 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 aitches produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.