hierarch needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hierarch is the highest-scoring word from hierarch, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in hierarch — and it is hierarch itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hierarch produces exactly one seven-letter word: charier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hierarch turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with richer. For points, the strongest plays are achier, archer, cahier, chirre, and richer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hierarch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chair and reach. For points, the strongest plays are archi, chair, chare, charr, chirr, and reach — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hierarch produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, each, hair, hear, hire, race, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, chai, char, chia, each, and rich — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hierarch turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, car, ear, era, hah, and heh. For points, the strongest plays are hah and heh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hierarch. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ah, eh, ha, he, and hi, 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 hierarch and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
hierarch 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 hierarch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
hierarch is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hierarch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hierarch, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hierarch 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 hierarch produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.