Hidden inside dispatches sit cadetships and dispatches, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 725 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cadetships and dispatches tie for the highest Scrabble score from dispatches at 18 points. The top 10 of 725 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in dispatches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dispatches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cadetships and dispatches, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dispatches turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cadetship, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dispatches. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are despatch and dispatch, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dispatches produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ditches, patched and patches. For points, the strongest plays are edaphic, patched, and pitched — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dispatches turns up 120 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashed, cashes and chased. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including capish, chapes and cheaps.
There are 200 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dispatches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seats, shape and ships. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including cheap, chips and patch.
Rearranging the letters in dispatches produces 204 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, chip, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dispatches turns up 103 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including hip, chi and hap.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dispatches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and as. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in dispatches plus one additional letter.
dispatches 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 nine senses for dispatches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
dispatches is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dispatches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cadetships and dispatches, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dispatches 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 dispatches produce 725 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 120 six-letter words, 200 five-letter words, 204 four-letter words, 103 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.