Hidden inside richen sit enrich, incher, and richen, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enrich, incher, and richen tie for the highest Scrabble score from richen at 11 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in richen: two come from rearranging its letters, and richen itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enrich, incher, and richen, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in richen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer. For points, the strongest plays are chine and niche — 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 richen produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, hire, inch, nice, rice, and rich. For points, the strongest plays are chin, inch, 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 richen turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her, and ice. 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in richen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and in. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — 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 richen 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.
richen 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.
richen is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing richen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enrich, incher, and richen, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from richen 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 richen produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.