hitchhikes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hitchhikes is the highest-scoring word from hitchhikes, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in hitchhikes — and it is hitchhikes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hitchhikes produces exactly one nine-letter word: hitchhike. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hitchhikes produces exactly one eight-letter word: thickish. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hitchhikes produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hickish, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hitchhikes turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, itches, and sketch. For points, the strongest plays are kheths and sheikh — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hitchhikes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, hikes and kites. For points, the strongest play is kheth — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hitchhikes produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heck, hike and hits. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hick — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hitchhikes turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heh, his and hit. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hitchhikes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in hitchhikes plus one additional letter.
hitchhikes 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for hitchhikes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
hitchhikes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hitchhikes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hitchhikes, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hitchhikes 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 hitchhikes produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.