riches needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CRIESH, CHEISR or SCHIRE and you get the same 6 letters as RICHES: so the words from RICHES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
riches is the highest-scoring word from riches, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in riches — and it is riches itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, hires, rices, and shier. For points, the strongest plays are heirs, hires, shier, and shire — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in riches produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire and ices. For points, the strongest plays are chis, ichs, and rich — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling riches turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his and ice. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in riches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
20 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in riches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in riches 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.
riches 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 riches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for riches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
riches is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing riches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is riches, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from riches 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 riches produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.