Hidden inside patch sit chapt and patch, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chapt and patch tie for the highest Scrabble score from patch at 12 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in patch: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patch itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patch. For points, the strongest plays are chapt and patch — 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 patch produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chat, pact, and path. For points, the strongest plays are caph and chap — 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 patch turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cap, cat, hat, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are hap, pah, and pht — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah and ha — 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 patch 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.
patch 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 thirteen senses for patch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
patch is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chapt and patch, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patch 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 patch produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.