Hidden inside rachis sit chairs and rachis, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chairs and rachis tie for the highest Scrabble score from rachis at 11 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in rachis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rachis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chairs. For points, the strongest plays are chairs and rachis — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rachis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chair, crash, and hairs. For points, the strongest plays are archi, chair, chais, chars, chias, and crash — 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 rachis produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, cars, cash, hair, rash, rich, and scar. For points, the strongest plays are arch, cash, chai, char, chia, chis, ichs, and rich — 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 rachis turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ash, car, has, his, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rachis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, ha, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, 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 rachis and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
rachis 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 rachis carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for rachis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
rachis is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rachis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chairs and rachis, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rachis 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 rachis produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.