Hidden inside cheating sit cheating and teaching, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cheating and teaching tie for the highest Scrabble score from cheating at 14 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cheating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cheating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: cheating and teaching, worth 14 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cheating produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heating. For points, the strongest plays are cathing, etching, and gnathic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cheating turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, change, eating, and hating. For points, the strongest plays are aching, change, and eching — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, chain, cheat, eight, giant, night, and teach. For points, the strongest plays are chang, ching, gatch, ginch, and gitch — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cheating produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, cent, chat, chin, each, gain, and gate. For points, the strongest play is gach — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cheating turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ant, ate, can, cat, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and hi — 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 cheating 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.
cheating 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 three senses for cheating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cheating is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cheating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cheating and teaching, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cheating 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 cheating produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.