cheapskate needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 387 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cheapskate is the highest-scoring word from cheapskate, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 387 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cheapskate — and it is cheapskate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapskate. 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 cheapskate produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patches, peaches, and teaches. For points, the strongest plays are ashcake, hackees, ketches, and pakehas — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cheapskate turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheats, cheeks and escape. For points, 8 words tie at 15 points, including cheeks, sketch and haceks.
There are 112 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapskate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cakes, capes and cease. For points, 8 words tie at 14 points, including cheek, hacks and shack.
Rearranging the letters in cheapskate produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes and cake. For points, the strongest plays are hack, heck, and kaph — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cheapskate turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act and aha. For points, the strongest plays are ack, kep, and pak — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapskate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in cheapskate plus one additional letter.
cheapskate 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 one sense for cheapskate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
cheapskate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cheapskate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cheapskate, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cheapskate 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 cheapskate produce 387 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 112 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.