Hidden inside arches sit arches, chares, chaser and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arches, chares, chaser and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from arches at 11 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in arches: four come from rearranging its letters, and arches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with search. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including search, arches and chares.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, chase and crash. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including chase, crash and reach.
Rearranging the letters in arches produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars and case. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cash, each and ache.
Unscrambling arches turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash and car. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and her.
34 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in arches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arches 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.
arches 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 arches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
arches is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arches, chares, chaser, eschar, and search, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arches 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 arches produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.