Hidden inside marching sit charming and marching, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
charming and marching tie for the highest Scrabble score from marching at 16 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in marching: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marching itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: charming and marching, worth 16 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marching produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with harming. For points, the strongest plays are arching, chagrin, charing, and harming — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling marching turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring and racing. For points, the strongest play is chimar — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chain, chair and charm. For points, the strongest plays are charm, chirm, and march — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marching produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, chin and cram. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling marching turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and arm. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and chi.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in marching 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.
marching 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 one sense for marching. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
marching is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marching unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are charming and marching, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marching 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 marching produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.