Hidden inside monarchies sit monarchies and nomarchies, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
monarchies and nomarchies tie for the highest Scrabble score from monarchies at 17 points. The top 10 of 1107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in monarchies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and monarchies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monarchies and nomarchies, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling monarchies turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are harmonics, nichromes, and omniarchs, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monarchies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with machines, romances, and scenario. For points, the strongest plays are chairmen, chimeras, choreman, chrismon, harmonic, machines, marchesi, monarchs, nichrome, nomarchs, and omniarch — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in monarchies produces 107 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anchors, incomes, machine, marches, ranches, remains, and romance. For points, the strongest plays are chamise, chamiso, chamois, charism, chimars, chimera, chimers, chrisma, chrisom, chromas, chromes, chromis, echoism, homeric, machers, machine, manches, marchen, marches, mesarch, monarch, nomarch, and schmear — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling monarchies turns up 230 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anchor, armies, casino, chains, chairs, charms, and choirs. For points, the strongest plays are charms, chemos, chiasm, chimar, chimer, chimes, chirms, chrism, chroma, chrome, haemic, macher, maches, machos, manche, mensch, miches, mochas, mochis, sachem, samech, schema, schmoe, simcha, and smirch — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 302 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monarchies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, chain, chair, chaos, charm, chase, and chins. For points, the strongest plays are chams, charm, chasm, chemo, chems, chime, chirm, mache, macho, machs, march, mechs, merch, miche, mocha, mochi, hemic, ohmic, and schmo — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in monarchies produces 260 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims, airs, amen, arms, came, and cans. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling monarchies turns up 133 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ash, can, and car. For points, the strongest plays are chi, ham, hem, hic, him, hom, ich, meh, mho, och, and ohm — 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 37 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in monarchies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, as, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in monarchies plus one additional letter.
monarchies 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 2-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 monarchies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
monarchies is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing monarchies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are monarchies and nomarchies, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from monarchies 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 monarchies produce 1107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 31 eight-letter words, 107 seven-letter words, 230 six-letter words, 302 five-letter words, 260 four-letter words, 133 three-letter words and 37 two-letter words.