Hidden inside research sit reachers, research, and searcher, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reachers, research, and searcher tie for the highest Scrabble score from research at 13 points. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in research: two come from rearranging its letters, and research itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with research. For points, the strongest plays are reachers, research, and searcher — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in research produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers and reaches. For points, the strongest plays are archers, crasher, reacher, and reaches — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling research turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career, cheers, and search. For points, the strongest plays are archer, arches, chares, charrs, chaser, cheers, creesh, eschar, and search — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in research. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cease, chase, cheer, crash, erase, and hears. For points, the strongest plays are aches, chare, charr, chars, chase, cheer, crash, eches, and reach — 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 research produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, cash, each, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, cash, char, each, and eche — 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 research turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash, car, ear, era, has, and her. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, hae, has, her, hes, rah, sha, and she — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in research. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, 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 research and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
research 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 research carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for research. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
research is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing research unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reachers, research, and searcher, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from research 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 research produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.