Hidden inside arched sit arched, chared, and echard, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arched, chared, and echard tie for the highest Scrabble score from arched at 12 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in arched: two come from rearranging its letters, and arched itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arched, chared, and echard, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared, heard, raced, and reach. For points, the strongest plays are ached and chard — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arched produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care, dare, dear, each, hard, and head. For points, the strongest play is chad — 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 arched turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, had, her, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 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 arched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — 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 arched and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
arched 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 arched carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for arched. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
arched is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arched unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arched, chared, and echard, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arched 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 arched produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.