checklist needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checklist is the highest-scoring word from checklist, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in checklist — and it is checklist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checklist produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tickles. For points, the strongest play is schtick — 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 checklist turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with checks, chicks, chiles, clicks, itches, sketch, and tickle. For points, the strongest plays are checks and chicks — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checklist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with check, chest, chick, chile, click, hikes, and kites. 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 checklist produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heck, hike, hits, ices, itch, kite, and kits. 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 checklist turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, ice, its, kit, let, and lie. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checklist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in checklist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in checklist 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.
checklist 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 checklist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
checklist is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checklist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is checklist, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from checklist 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 checklist produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.