Hidden inside notches sit notches and technos, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 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.
notches and technos tie for the highest Scrabble score from notches at 12 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in notches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and notches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notches. For points, the strongest plays are notches and technos — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling notches turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chosen and honest. For points, the strongest plays are chosen, stench, and techno — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, chest, chose, cones, notch, notes, and scent. For points, the strongest plays are chest, chons, chose, echos, notch, oches, techs, and tench — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in notches produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, cons, cost, hens, hose, and host. For points, the strongest plays are chon, cosh, echo, echt, etch, oche, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling notches turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, hen, hot, net, not, one, and set. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, no, oh, on, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in notches and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
notches 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 six senses for notches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
notches is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing notches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are notches and technos, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from notches 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 notches produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.