Hidden inside sachems sit sachems, samechs, and schemas, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sachems, samechs, and schemas tie for the highest Scrabble score from sachems at 14 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in sachems: two come from rearranging its letters, and sachems itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sachems, samechs, and schemas, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sachems turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, chases, and shames. For points, the strongest plays are chasms, maches, sachem, samech, and schema — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sachems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, cases, chase, chess, scams, shame, and smash. For points, the strongest plays are chams, chasm, chems, mache, machs, and mechs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sachems produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, came, case, cash, each, hams, and mass. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sachems turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, ham, has, sea, and she. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sachems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 sachems and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sachems 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for sachems. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
sachems is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sachems unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sachems, samechs, and schemas, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sachems 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 sachems produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.