Hidden inside echos sit chose, echos, and oches, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chose, echos, and oches tie for the highest Scrabble score from echos at 10 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in echos: two come from rearranging its letters, and echos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chose. For points, the strongest plays are chose, echos, and oches — 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 echos produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hose and shoe. For points, the strongest plays are cosh, echo, and oche — 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 echos turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with she. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in echos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, oh, 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 echos and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
echos 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 echos carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record nine senses for echos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
echos is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing echos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chose, echos, and oches, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from echos 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 echos produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.