checks needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checks is the highest-scoring word from checks, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in checks — and it is checks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checks. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: check, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling checks produces exactly one four-letter word: heck. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checks turns up 3 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with she. For points, the strongest plays are hes and she — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checks. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, he, and sh, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in checks and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
checks 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 thirty-eight senses for checks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
checks is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is checks, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from checks 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 checks produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 3 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.