Hidden inside fiche sit chief and fiche, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chief and fiche tie for the highest Scrabble score from fiche at 13 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in fiche: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fiche itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chief. For points, the strongest plays are chief and fiche — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fiche produces 2 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: chef, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fiche turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice. For points, the strongest play is feh — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fiche. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, eh, fe, he, hi, and if — 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 fiche 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.
fiche 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 fiche carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
fiche is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fiche unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chief and fiche, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fiche 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 fiche produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.