Hidden inside checkers sit checkers and rechecks, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checkers and rechecks tie for the highest Scrabble score from checkers at 19 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in checkers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and checkers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are checkers and rechecks, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in checkers produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are checker 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 checkers turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with checks, cheeks, and cheers. For points, the strongest play is checks — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkers. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in checkers produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heck, here, hers, and seek. For points, the strongest play is heck — 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 checkers turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, see, and she. For points, the strongest plays are eek and eke — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkers. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, he, and sh, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in checkers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in checkers 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.
checkers 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 checkers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
checkers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checkers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are checkers and rechecks, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from checkers 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 checkers produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.