ricocheted needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 347 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ricocheted is the highest-scoring word from ricocheted, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 347 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ricocheted — and it is ricocheted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ricocheted produces exactly one nine-letter word: crocheted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ricocheted. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is crotched, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ricocheted produces 32 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are choicer, choreic, crochet, and ecorche, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ricocheted turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choice, credit and crotch. For points, 8 words tie at 13 points, including choice, crotch and chicer.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ricocheted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, choir and chore. For points, the strongest play is chico — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ricocheted produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord and core. For points, the strongest plays are chic and choc — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ricocheted turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and her. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ricocheted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in ricocheted plus one additional letter.
ricocheted 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.
ricocheted is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ricocheted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ricocheted, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ricocheted 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 ricocheted produce 347 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.