Hidden inside antechoir sit anchorite and antechoir, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 534 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anchorite and antechoir tie for the highest Scrabble score from antechoir at 14 points. The top 10 of 534 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in antechoir: one comes from rearranging its letters, and antechoir 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 anchorite and antechoir, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antechoir. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction. For points, the strongest plays are anchoret, anorthic, inchoate, and notchier — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antechoir produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with another and certain. For points, 14 words tie at 12 points, including achiote, archine and chainer.
Unscrambling antechoir turns up 90 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, anchor and carton. For points, 30 words tie at 11 points, including anchor, achier and archon.
There are 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antechoir. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cater and chain. For points, 38 words tie at 10 points, including chain, chair and chart.
Rearranging the letters in antechoir produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and cent. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including chat, chin and each.
Unscrambling antechoir turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antechoir. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in antechoir plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in antechoir 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.
antechoir 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.
antechoir is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antechoir unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anchorite and antechoir, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from antechoir 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 antechoir produce 534 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 90 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.