Hidden inside checkered sit checkered and rechecked, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 21 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checkered and rechecked tie for the highest Scrabble score from checkered at 21 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in checkered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and checkered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are checkered and rechecked, each worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checkered produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with checked and cheered. For points, the strongest play is checked — worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checkered turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are creche, decker, and recked, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with check, cheek, and cheer. For points, the strongest play is check — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checkered produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deck, deer, heck, and here. For points, the strongest play is heck — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in checkered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in checkered and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
checkered 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 two senses for checkered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
checkered is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checkered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are checkered and rechecked, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from checkered 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 checkered produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.