Hidden inside staunch sit canthus, chaunts, and staunch, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 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.
canthus, chaunts, and staunch tie for the highest Scrabble score from staunch at 12 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 staunch: two come from rearranging its letters, and staunch 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 canthus, chaunts, and staunch, each 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 staunch turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with haunts. For points, the strongest plays are chants, chaunt, cushat, nautch, snatch, and stanch — 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staunch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, chats, haunt, hunts, and tunas. For points, the strongest plays are caths, chant, chats, natch, nucha, sauch, 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 staunch produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, aunt, cans, cash, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are cash, cath, chat, such, 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 staunch turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ash, can, cat, cut, and has. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, has, hat, hun, hut, nah, nth, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staunch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, ha, sh, and uh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, sh, and uh — 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 staunch 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.
staunch 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 2-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 staunch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
staunch is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staunch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are canthus, chaunts, and staunch, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staunch 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 staunch 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, 19 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.