Hidden inside patches sit hepcats and patches, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hepcats and patches tie for the highest Scrabble score from patches at 14 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in patches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patches. For points, the strongest plays are hepcats and patches — 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 patches turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheats. For points, the strongest plays are chapes, cheaps, and hepcat — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, chase, chats, cheap, cheat, chest, and hates. For points, the strongest plays are caphs, chape, chaps, chapt, cheap, patch, peach, and pechs — 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 patches produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes, cape, caps, case, cash, and cast. 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 patches turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape, ash, ate, cap, cat, and eat. 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 patches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, 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.
Swap a single tile in patches 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.
patches 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 thirteen senses for patches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
patches is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hepcats and patches, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patches 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 patches produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.