cheapen needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cheapen is the highest-scoring word from cheapen, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in cheapen — and it is cheapen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheap, peace, and peach. For points, the strongest plays are chape, cheap, cheep, and peach — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cheapen produces 20 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.
Unscrambling cheapen turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, can and cap. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and eh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cheapen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cheapen 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.
cheapen 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for cheapen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cheapen is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cheapen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cheapen, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cheapen 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 cheapen produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.