Hidden inside cithers sit cithers and richest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cithers and richest tie for the highest Scrabble score from cithers at 12 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cithers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cithers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with richest. For points, the strongest plays are cithers and richest — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cithers turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with itches and theirs. For points, the strongest plays are cherts, cither, ethics, itches, riches, and thrice — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cithers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, cries, hires, rices, shier, shirt, and their. For points, the strongest plays are chert, chest, chits, ethic, retch, sitch, stich, and techs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cithers produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire, hits, ices, itch, rest, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are chis, chit, echt, etch, ichs, itch, rich, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cithers turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, hit, ice, its, set, and she. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cithers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 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 cithers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cithers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in cithers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for cithers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cithers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cithers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cithers and richest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cithers 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 cithers produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.