Hidden inside patcher sit chapter, patcher, and repatch, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chapter, patcher, and repatch tie for the highest Scrabble score from patcher at 14 points. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in patcher: two come from rearranging its letters, and patcher itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chapter. For points, the strongest plays are chapter, patcher, and repatch — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patcher turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet. For points, the strongest plays are eparch, hepcat, and preach — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patcher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, chart, cheap, cheat, earth, heart, and patch. For points, the strongest plays are chape, chapt, cheap, parch, patch, peach, and perch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in patcher produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care, cart, chat, crap, each, and hate. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patcher turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape, are, art, ate, cap, and car. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, peh, and pht — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patcher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — 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 patcher 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.
patcher 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.
patcher is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patcher unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chapter, patcher, and repatch, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patcher 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 patcher produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.