Hidden inside cheapest sit cheapest and tepaches, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 248 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cheapest and tepaches tie for the highest Scrabble score from cheapest at 15 points. The top 10 of 248 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cheapest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cheapest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheapest. For points, the strongest plays are cheapest and tepaches — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cheapest produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patches, peaches, and teaches. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including patches, peaches and capeesh.
Unscrambling cheapest turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheats, escape, and speech. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including speech, chapes and cheaps.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cease and chase. For points, 9 words tie at 12 points, including cheap, patch and peach.
Rearranging the letters in cheapest produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes and cape. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cheapest turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and ash. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including hap, hep and pah.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in cheapest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cheapest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cheapest 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.
cheapest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cheapest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cheapest and tepaches, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cheapest 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 cheapest produce 248 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.