Hidden inside catechisms sit catechisms and schematics, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 480 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
catechisms and schematics tie for the highest Scrabble score from catechisms at 19 points. The top 10 of 480 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in catechisms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and catechisms 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 catechisms and schematics, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling catechisms turns up 4 nine-letter words. 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 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catechisms. 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 catechisms produces 43 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 catechisms turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with access, cashes, chases, cheats, chests, itches, and shames. 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 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catechisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, cases, casts, catch, chase, chats, and cheat. 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 catechisms produces 140 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 catechisms turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, ash, ass, ate, cat, and eat. 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 catechisms. 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.
catechisms 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 catechisms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
catechisms is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catechisms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are catechisms and schematics, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catechisms 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 catechisms produce 480 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.