Hidden inside ochre 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 ochre 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 ochre: two come from rearranging its letters, and ochre 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 ochre 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 ochre 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 ochre. 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 ochre 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.
ochre 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 ochre carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for ochre. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ochre is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ochre 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 ochre 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 ochre 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.