Hidden inside charge sit charge and gacher, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble RACHEG, CEGARH or HECRAG and you get the same 6 letters as CHARGE: so the words from CHARGE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
charge and gacher tie for the highest Scrabble score from charge at 12 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in charge: one comes from rearranging its letters, and charge itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with charge. For points, the strongest plays are charge and gacher — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in charge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grace and reach. For points, the strongest plays are chare and reach — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in charge produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, cage and care. For points, the strongest play is gach — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling charge turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and car. For points, the strongest play is hag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in charge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in charge and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
charge 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 forty senses for charge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
charge is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing charge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are charge and gacher, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from charge 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 charge produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.