Hidden inside eparchs sit eparchs and parches, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eparchs and parches tie for the highest Scrabble score from eparchs at 14 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in eparchs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and eparchs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eparchs and parches, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eparchs turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phrase, scrape, and search. For points, the strongest plays are chapes, cheaps, eparch, preach, and scarph — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eparchs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares, chase, cheap, craps, crash, and hears. For points, the strongest plays are caphs, chape, chaps, cheap, parch, peach, pechs, and perch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in eparchs produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, care, cars, case, and cash. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eparchs turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ash, cap, car, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — 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 eparchs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, 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 eparchs 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.
eparchs 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 two senses for eparchs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
eparchs is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eparchs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eparchs and parches, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eparchs 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 eparchs produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.