Hidden inside catches sit cachets and catches, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cachets and catches tie for the highest Scrabble score from catches at 14 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in catches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and catches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catches. For points, the strongest plays are cachets and catches — 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 catches turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheats. For points, the strongest plays are caches and cachet — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catch, chase, chats, cheat, chest, hates, and heats. 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 catches produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case, cash, cast, cats, chat, and each. For points, the strongest plays are ache, cash, cath, 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 catches turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ash, ate, cat, eat, has, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, hes, het, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in catches. 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.
Swap a single tile in catches 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.
catches 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 thirty-nine senses for catches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
catches is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing catches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cachets and catches, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from catches 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 catches produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.