Hidden inside itches sit ethics and itches, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ethics and itches tie for the highest Scrabble score from itches at 11 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in itches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and itches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with itches. For points, the strongest plays are ethics and itches — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in itches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest. For points, the strongest plays are chest, chits, ethic, sitch, stich, and techs — 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 itches produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, ices, itch, site, this, and ties. For points, the strongest plays are chis, chit, echt, etch, ichs, itch, and tech — 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 itches turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, ice, its, set, she, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in itches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — 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 itches 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.
itches 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 itches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for itches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
itches is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing itches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ethics and itches, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from itches 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 itches produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.