patched needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CHADPET, TEPACHD or DECPATH and you get the same 7 letters as PATCHED: so the words from PATCHED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
patched is the highest-scoring word from patched, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in patched — and it is patched itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cheap and cheat. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including cheap, patch and peach.
Rearranging the letters in patched produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, chat and date. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patched turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and ate. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including hap, hep and pah.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and at. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in patched plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patched 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.
patched 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 two senses for patched. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
patched is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patched unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is patched, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from patched 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 patched produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.