Hidden inside cheap sit chape, cheap, and peach, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chape, cheap, and peach tie for the highest Scrabble score from cheap at 12 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in cheap: two come from rearranging its letters, and cheap itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheap and peach. For points, the strongest plays are chape, cheap, and peach — 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 cheap produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape and each. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cheap turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, cap, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheap. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ah, eh, ha, and he, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cheap and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
cheap 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 four senses for cheap. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cheap is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cheap unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chape, cheap, and peach, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cheap 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 cheap produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.