characters needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 335 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
characters is the highest-scoring word from characters, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 335 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in characters — and it is characters itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling characters turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with character. For points, the strongest plays are character and scratcher — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in characters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are catchers 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 characters produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catches and scratch. For points, the strongest plays are cachets, catcher, catches, and scratch — 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 characters turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, caters, charts, cheats, hearts, rarest, and rather. For points, the strongest plays are caches, cachet, and cratch — 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in characters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares, carts, catch, cater, chart, and chase. For points, the strongest plays are cache and catch — 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 characters produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, area, arts, care, cars, cart, and case. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, cash, cath, char, chat, each, echt, etch, tach, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling characters turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act, aha, are, art, ash, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are aah, aha, ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, her, hes, het, rah, sha, she, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in characters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, 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.
characters 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 ten senses for characters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
characters is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing characters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is characters, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from characters 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 characters produce 335 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.