Hidden inside reattaches sit reattaches and tracheates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 473 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reattaches and tracheates tie for the highest Scrabble score from reattaches at 15 points. The top 10 of 473 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in reattaches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reattaches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reattaches and tracheates, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reattaches turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attachers, catheters, charettes, and tracheate, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reattaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attaches, cheaters, teachers, and theaters. For points, 14 words tie at 13 points, including attaches, cheaters and teachers.
Rearranging the letters in reattaches produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheater, creates and reaches. For points, 21 words tie at 12 points, including cheater, reaches and stretch.
Unscrambling reattaches turns up 86 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attach, caters and charts. For points, 22 words tie at 11 points, including attach, charts and cheats.
There are 125 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reattaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares and carts. For points, 21 words tie at 10 points, including chart, chase and chats.
Rearranging the letters in reattaches produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, area and arts. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including cash, chat and each.
Unscrambling reattaches turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act and aha. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including aah, aha and ash.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reattaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in reattaches plus one additional letter.
reattaches 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 reattaches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
reattaches is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reattaches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reattaches and tracheates, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reattaches 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 reattaches produce 473 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 86 six-letter words, 125 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.