Hidden inside charges sit charges and gachers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
charges and gachers tie for the highest Scrabble score from charges at 13 points. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in charges: one comes from rearranging its letters, and charges itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with charges. For points, the strongest plays are charges and gachers — 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 charges turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with charge, graces, and search. For points, the strongest plays are charge, gacher, and gaches — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in charges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, cares, chase, crash, grace, hears, and races. For points, the strongest plays are aches, chare, chars, chase, crash, and reach — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in charges produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, argh, cage, care, cars, case, and cash. For points, the strongest play is gach — 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 charges turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ash, car, ear, era, and gas. For points, the strongest play is hag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in charges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 charges and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
charges 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 charges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
charges is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing charges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are charges and gachers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from charges 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 charges produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.