Hidden inside checkering sit checkering and rechecking, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 22 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checkering and rechecking tie for the highest Scrabble score from checkering at 22 points. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in checkering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and checkering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are checkering and rechecking, each worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling checkering produces exactly one nine-letter word: checkrein. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with checking and cheering. For points, the strongest play is checking — worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in checkering produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chicken. For points, the strongest plays are checker, chickee, chicken, and recheck — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling checkering turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hicker, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with check, cheek, cheer, chick, green, nicer, and niece. For points, the strongest plays are check and chick — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in checkering produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, geek, gene, heck, here, hike, and hire. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hick — 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 checkering turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, hen, her, ice, ink, and rig. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and in. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in checkering plus one additional letter.
checkering 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
checkering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checkering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are checkering and rechecking, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from checkering 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 checkering produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.