Hidden inside larchen sit charnel and larchen, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
charnel and larchen tie for the highest Scrabble score from larchen at 12 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in larchen: one comes from rearranging its letters, and larchen 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 charnel and larchen, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling larchen produces exactly one six-letter word: lancer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larchen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, clear and learn. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including ranch, reach and chare.
Rearranging the letters in larchen produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, each and earn. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including each, ache and arch.
Unscrambling larchen turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, can and car. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including hen, her and nah.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larchen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and eh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in larchen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in larchen 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.
larchen is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
larchen is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing larchen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are charnel and larchen, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from larchen 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 larchen produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 20 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.