checkbook needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checkbook is the highest-scoring word from checkbook, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in checkbook — and it is checkbook itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkbook. If a familiar word is all you need, start with check and choke. For points, the strongest plays are check and chock — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checkbook produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with book, cock and coke. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in checkbook plus one additional letter.
checkbook 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 checkbook. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
checkbook is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checkbook unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is checkbook, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from checkbook 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 checkbook produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.