Hidden inside scythe sit chesty and scythe, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chesty and scythe tie for the highest Scrabble score from scythe at 14 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in scythe: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scythe itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chesty and scythe, each worth 14 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 scythe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest. For points, the strongest plays are techy and yechs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scythe produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with they. For points, the strongest play is yech — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scythe turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hey, set, she, shy, the, thy, and yes. For points, the strongest plays are hey, shy, thy, and yeh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scythe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, sh, and ye — each worth 5 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 scythe 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.
scythe 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 scythe. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
scythe is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scythe unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chesty and scythe, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scythe 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 scythe produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.