Hidden inside launcher sit launcher and relaunch, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
launcher and relaunch tie for the highest Scrabble score from launcher at 13 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in launcher: one comes from rearranging its letters, and launcher itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are launcher and relaunch, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in launcher produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuclear. For points, the strongest plays are charnel, larchen, and luncher — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling launcher turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with launch. For points, the strongest plays are launch, nuchae, nuchal, and raunch — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in launcher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, clear and cruel. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including lunch, ranch and reach.
Rearranging the letters in launcher produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, clue and cure. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including each, ache and arch.
Unscrambling launcher turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, can and car. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including hen, her and nah.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in launcher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and eh. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in launcher plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in launcher 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.
launcher 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 3-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 launcher. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
launcher is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing launcher unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are launcher and relaunch, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from launcher 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 launcher produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.