Hidden inside carritches sit carritches and scratchier, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 542 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carritches and scratchier tie for the highest Scrabble score from carritches at 17 points. The top 10 of 542 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in carritches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and carritches 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 carritches and scratchier, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling carritches 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 scratcher, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carritches. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carritch, catchers, catchier, and cratches, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in carritches produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carries, catches, richest, scarier, and scratch. For points, the strongest plays are cachets, catcher, catches, chicest, hectics, scraich, scratch, and scritch — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling carritches turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, caters, chairs, charts, cheats, hearts, and itches. For points, the strongest plays are caches, cachet, chicas, chicer, cratch, and hectic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 150 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carritches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts, catch, cater, chair, chart, and chase. For points, the strongest plays are cache, catch, chica, and chics — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in carritches produces 135 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, care, cars, cart, and case. For points, the strongest play is chic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling carritches turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ash, ate, and car. 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carritches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
carritches 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.
carritches is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing carritches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carritches and scratchier, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from carritches 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 carritches produce 542 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 150 five-letter words, 135 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.