Hidden inside ochers sit chores, cosher, ochers and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chores, cosher, ochers and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ochers at 11 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in ochers: three come from rearranging its letters, and ochers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chores. For points, the strongest plays are chores, cosher, ochers, and ochres — 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ochers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chore, chose, cores, horse, and score. For points, the strongest plays are chore, chose, echos, ocher, oches, 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 ochers produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, hero, hers, hose, rose, shoe, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are cosh, 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 ochers turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her and she. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ochers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, or, sh, and so. 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.
28 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ochers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ochers 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.
ochers 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 ochers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for ochers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ochers is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ochers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chores, cosher, ochers, and ochres, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ochers 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 ochers produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.