checkmates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checkmates is the highest-scoring word from checkmates, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in checkmates — and it is checkmates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checkmates produces exactly one nine-letter word: checkmate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 22 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkmates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are machetes and seecatch, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checkmates produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catches, matches, and teaches. For points, the strongest plays are hackees, hakeems, and ketches — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checkmates turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheats, checks and cheeks. For points, the strongest play is checks — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cakes, catch and cease. For points, the strongest play is check — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checkmates produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ahem and cake. For points, the strongest plays are hack and heck — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checkmates turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ash and ask. For points, the strongest play is ack — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
checkmates 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 three senses for checkmates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
checkmates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checkmates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is checkmates, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from checkmates 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 checkmates produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.