Hidden inside archfiends sit archfiends and franchised, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 812 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
archfiends and franchised tie for the highest Scrabble score from archfiends at 19 points. The top 10 of 812 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in archfiends: one comes from rearranging its letters, and archfiends itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are archfiends and franchised, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling archfiends turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is archfiend, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in archfiends. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are echidnas, faciends, inarched, and rachides, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in archfiends produces 69 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, crashed and dancers. For points, the strongest plays are chafers and finches — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling archfiends turns up 156 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashed, chains and chairs. For points, the strongest play is chafed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 231 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in archfiends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafes, cards and cared. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including chefs, chief and chafe.
Rearranging the letters in archfiends produces 210 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids and airs. For points, the strongest play is chef — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling archfiends turns up 102 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are fah and feh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in archfiends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
archfiends 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.
archfiends is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing archfiends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are archfiends and franchised, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from archfiends 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 archfiends produce 812 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 69 seven-letter words, 156 six-letter words, 231 five-letter words, 210 four-letter words, 102 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.