Hidden inside arching sit arching, chagrin, and charing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arching, chagrin, and charing tie for the highest Scrabble score from arching at 13 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in arching: two come from rearranging its letters, and arching itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arching, chagrin, and charing, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arching turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring and racing. For points, the strongest plays are aching and grinch — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chain, chair, cigar, and ranch. For points, the strongest plays are chang, ching, and ginch — 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 arching produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, chin, gain, hair, hang, inch, and rain. For points, the strongest play is gach — 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 arching turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, can, car, nag, nah, rag, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, ha, hi, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, and hi — 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 arching and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
arching 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 2-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 arching. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
arching is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arching unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arching, chagrin, and charing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arching 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 arching produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.