Hidden inside catechism sit catechism and schematic, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 354 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
catechism and schematic tie for the highest Scrabble score from catechism at 18 points. The top 10 of 354 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in catechism: one comes from rearranging its letters, and catechism itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are catechism and schematic, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catechism. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sachemic, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in catechism produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catches and matches. For points, the strongest plays are chasmic, chemics, and macchie — 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 catechism turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheats and itches. For points, the strongest play is chemic — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catechism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catch, chase, chats, cheat, chest, hates, and heats. For points, the strongest plays are cache, catch, chams, chasm, chems, chica, chics, chime, hemic, mache, machs, match, mechs, and miche — 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 catechism produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ahem, aims, came, case, cash, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, chic, mach, and mech — each 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 catechism turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, ash, ate, cat, eat, and ham. For points, the strongest plays are chi, ham, hem, hic, him, ich, and meh — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catechism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in catechism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in catechism 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.
catechism 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 two senses for catechism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
catechism is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catechism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are catechism and schematic, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catechism 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 catechism produce 354 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.