Hidden inside archaisms sit archaisms and charismas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
archaisms and charismas tie for the highest Scrabble score from archaisms at 16 points. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in archaisms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and archaisms 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 archaisms and charismas, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in archaisms. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are archaism, chamisas, charisma and 2 more, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in archaisms produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sarcasm. For points, 8 words tie at 14 points, including chamisa, charism and chiasma.
Unscrambling archaisms turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chairs, charms, and harass. For points, 9 words tie at 13 points, including charms, chasms and chiasm.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in archaisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chair, charm and crams. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including charm, march and chams.
Rearranging the letters in archaisms produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling archaisms turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and chi.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in archaisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in archaisms plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in archaisms 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.
archaisms 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 archaisms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
archaisms is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing archaisms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are archaisms and charismas, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from archaisms 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 archaisms produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.