Hidden inside ostriches sit ostriches and trichoses, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 458 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ostriches and trichoses tie for the highest Scrabble score from ostriches at 14 points. The top 10 of 458 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ostriches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ostriches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ostriches and trichoses, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostriches. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is orchises, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ostriches produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with richest, sectors, and stories. For points, the strongest plays are cithers, coheirs, coshers, hectors, heroics, ostrich, richest, rochets, rotches, sitches, tochers, torches, and troches — 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 ostriches turns up 98 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chests, choirs, chores, crises, erotic, horses, and itches. For points, the strongest plays are cherts, chests, chiros, choirs, chores, choses, cither, coheir, cosher, coshes, ethics, hector, heroic, ichors, itches, ochers, ochres, orchis, rhotic, riches, rochet, rotche, schist, stichs, thoric, thrice, tocher, and troche — 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 120 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostriches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chess, chest, choir, chore, chose, cores, and costs. For points, the strongest plays are chert, chess, chest, chiro, chits, choir, chore, chose, echos, ethic, ichor, ocher, oches, ochre, retch, rotch, sitch, stich, techs, and torch — 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 ostriches produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cost, hero, hers, hire, hits, and hose. For points, the strongest plays are chis, chit, cosh, echo, echt, etch, ichs, itch, oche, rich, 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 ostriches turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, hit, hot, ice, its, and set. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostriches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, it, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ostriches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ostriches and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ostriches 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 ostriches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for ostriches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
ostriches is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ostriches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ostriches and trichoses, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ostriches 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 ostriches produce 458 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 98 six-letter words, 120 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.