Hidden inside ocher sit chore, ocher, and ochre, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chore, ocher, and ochre tie for the highest Scrabble score from ocher at 10 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in ocher: two come from rearranging its letters, and ocher itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chore. For points, the strongest plays are chore, ocher, and ochre — 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 ocher produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core and hero. For points, the strongest plays are echo and oche — 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 ocher turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her. 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ocher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — 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 ocher and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
ocher 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in ocher carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for ocher. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ocher is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ocher unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chore, ocher, and ochre, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ocher 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 ocher produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.