artichoke needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 381 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artichoke is the highest-scoring word from artichoke, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 381 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in artichoke — and it is artichoke itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in artichoke produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tackier and thicker. For points, the strongest plays are chokier, hotcake, and thicker — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling artichoke turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erotic, racket, and rocket. For points, the strongest plays are choker, hacker, hackie, hicker, hocker, and kochia — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artichoke. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cater, chair, chart, cheat, choir, and choke. For points, the strongest plays are chark, chirk, choke, hacek, haick, hoick, ketch, thack, and thick — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in artichoke produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cake, care, cart, chat, coat, coke, and core. For points, the strongest plays are hack, heck, hick, and hock — 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 artichoke turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in artichoke. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, eh, ha, he, hi, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ka, ki, and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in artichoke plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in artichoke 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.
artichoke 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 artichoke carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for artichoke. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
artichoke is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing artichoke unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is artichoke, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from artichoke 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 artichoke produce 381 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.