ditches needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ditches is the highest-scoring word from ditches, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ditches — and it is ditches itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ditches turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with itched and itches. For points, the strongest plays are chides and itched — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ditches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, dices, diets, ditch, edits, and hides. For points, the strongest plays are chide and ditch — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ditches produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dice, dies, diet, dish, edit, hide, and hits. For points, the strongest play is chid — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ditches turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, hid, his, hit, ice, ids, and its. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ditches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, id, 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 ditches 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.
ditches 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 ditches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eight senses for ditches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ditches is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ditches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ditches, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ditches 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 ditches produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.