Hidden inside speech sit cheeps and speech, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cheeps and speech tie for the highest Scrabble score from speech at 13 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in speech: one comes from rearranging its letters, and speech itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with speech. For points, the strongest plays are cheeps and speech — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in speech. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sheep. For points, the strongest plays are cheep and pechs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in speech produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees. For points, the strongest play is pech — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in speech plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in speech 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.
speech 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for speech. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
speech is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing speech unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cheeps and speech, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from speech 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 speech produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.