Hidden inside catechesis sit catechesis and catechises, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
catechesis and catechises tie for the highest Scrabble score from catechesis at 17 points. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in catechesis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and catechesis 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 catechesis and catechises, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling catechesis produces exactly one nine-letter word: catechise. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catechesis. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is seecatch, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in catechesis produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catches, easiest, and teaches. For points, the strongest plays are cachets, catches, chicest, and hectics — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling catechesis turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with access, cashes and ceases. For points, the strongest plays are caches, cachet, chicas, and hectic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catechesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, cases and casts. For points, the strongest plays are cache, catch, chica, and chics — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in catechesis produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case and cash. For points, the strongest play is chic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling catechesis turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ash and ass. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catechesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
catechesis 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for catechesis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
catechesis is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catechesis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are catechesis and catechises, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catechesis 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 catechesis produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.