checksum needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checksum is the highest-scoring word from checksum, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in checksum — and it is checksum itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checksum produces exactly one seven-letter word: schmuck. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checksum turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with checks. For points, the strongest plays are checks, chucks, and shmuck — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checksum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with check. For points, the strongest plays are check and chuck — 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 checksum produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, heck, much, scum, such, and suck. For points, the strongest plays are heck and huck — 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 checksum turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, she, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are hem, hum, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checksum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, me, sh, uh, and um. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in checksum 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.
checksum is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for checksum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
checksum is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checksum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is checksum, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from checksum 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 checksum produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.