Hidden inside tach sit cath, chat, and tach, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 10 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cath, chat, and tach tie for the highest Scrabble score from tach at 9 points. The top 10 of 10 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in tach: two come from rearranging its letters, and tach itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chat. For points, the strongest plays are cath, 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 tach turns up 3 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cat, and hat. For points, the strongest play is hat — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tach. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah and ha — 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 tach and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
tach 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 tach carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tach. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tach is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tach unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cath, chat, and tach, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tach 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 tach produce 10 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 3 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.