Hidden inside starch sit charts and starch, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
charts and starch tie for the highest Scrabble score from starch at 11 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in starch: one comes from rearranging its letters, and starch itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with charts. For points, the strongest plays are charts and starch — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carts, chart, chats, crash, and trash. For points, the strongest plays are caths, chars, chart, chats, crash, ratch, and tachs — each 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 starch produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, cars, cart, cash, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are arch, cash, cath, char, chat, and tach — each 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 starch turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, art, ash, car, cat, has, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, has, hat, rah, and sha — each worth 6 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 starch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, ha, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, and sh — 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 starch 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.
starch 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 starch carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for starch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
starch is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing starch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are charts and starch, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from starch 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 starch produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.