Hidden inside richer sit chirre and richer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chirre and richer tie for the highest Scrabble score from richer at 11 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in richer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and richer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with richer. For points, the strongest plays are chirre and richer — 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in richer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chirr, 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 richer produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hire, rice, and rich. For points, the strongest play is rich — 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 richer turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in richer. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, he, and hi, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in richer 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.
richer 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 richer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
richer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing richer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chirre and richer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from richer 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 richer produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.