scratched needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 394 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scratched is the highest-scoring word from scratched, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 394 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in scratched — and it is scratched itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scratched. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are catchers and cratches, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scratched produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catches, crashed and hardest. For points, the strongest plays are cachets, catcher, catches, and scratch — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scratched turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashed, caters and charts. For points, the strongest play is cached — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scratched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cards and cared. For points, the strongest plays are cache and catch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scratched produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts and card. For points, the strongest play is chad — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scratched turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and are. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scratched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and as. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
Swap a single tile in scratched and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
scratched 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.
scratched is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scratched unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is scratched, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from scratched 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 scratched produce 394 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.