Hidden inside haricot sit chariot and haricot, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chariot and haricot tie for the highest Scrabble score from haricot at 12 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in haricot: one comes from rearranging its letters, and haricot 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 chariot and haricot, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling haricot turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rhotic and thoric, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in haricot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, chair, chart, and choir. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including chair, chart and choir.
Rearranging the letters in haricot produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, chat and coat. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including chat, itch and rich.
Unscrambling haricot turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and art. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in haricot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and ha. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ha and hi.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in haricot plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in haricot 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.
haricot 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 haricot carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for haricot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
haricot is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing haricot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chariot and haricot, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from haricot 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 haricot produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.