Hidden inside lorich is one standout: orchil, a six-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CHOLIR, LOCHIR or CHLOIR and you get the same 6 letters as LORICH: so the words from LORICH listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
LORICH isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ORCHIL (noun), a purple dye, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
orchil is the highest-scoring word from lorich, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling lorich produces exactly one six-letter word: orchil. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lorich turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oil. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lorich. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lorich plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lorich 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is orchil, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lorich 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 lorich produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.