Hidden inside charades sit charades and hardcase, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
charades and hardcase tie for the highest Scrabble score from charades at 14 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in charades: one comes from rearranging its letters, and charades itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with charades. For points, the strongest plays are charades and hardcase — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in charades produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with charade and crashed. For points, the strongest plays are chadars, charade, crashed, and echards — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling charades turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashed, chased, sacred, scared, search, and shared. For points, the strongest plays are arched, cashed, chadar, chards, chared, chased, dachas, and echard — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in charades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahead, areas, cards, cared, cares, chase, and crash. For points, the strongest plays are ached, chads, chard, and dacha — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in charades produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, card, care, cars, case, cash, and dare. For points, the strongest play is chad — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling charades turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, ads, aha, are, ash, car, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 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 charades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, as, 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.
Swap a single tile in charades and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
charades 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in charades carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for charades. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
charades is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing charades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are charades and hardcase, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from charades 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 charades produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.