rematches needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 550 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rematches is the highest-scoring word from rematches, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 550 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in rematches — and it is rematches itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rematches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashmere, cheaters, and teachers. For points, 5 words tie at 15 points, including cashmere, machetes and machrees.
Rearranging the letters in rematches produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheater, creates and hamster. For points, 12 words tie at 14 points, including marches, matches and machers.
Unscrambling rematches turns up 97 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, charms and charts. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including charms, scheme and macher.
There are 161 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rematches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts and cater. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including charm, march and match.
Rearranging the letters in rematches produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ahem and arms. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rematches turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rematches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in rematches and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
rematches 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 one sense for rematches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
rematches is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rematches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rematches, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rematches 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 rematches produce 550 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 97 six-letter words, 161 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.