Hidden inside pitches sit chipset and pitches, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SPICHET, CHEPSTI or SCHEPTI and you get the same 7 letters as PITCHES: so the words from PITCHES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
chipset and pitches tie for the highest Scrabble score from pitches at 14 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pitches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pitches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pitches. For points, the strongest plays are chipset and pitches — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pitches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, chips, pitch, and spice. For points, the strongest plays are chips, pechs, and pitch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pitches produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chip, epic and hips. For points, the strongest plays are chip and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pitches turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hip, his and hit. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including hip, chi and hep.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pitches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pitches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pitches 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.
pitches 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 twenty-three senses for pitches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pitches is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pitches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chipset and pitches, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pitches 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 pitches produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.