Hidden inside teaches sit escheat and teaches, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
escheat and teaches tie for the highest Scrabble score from teaches at 12 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in teaches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and teaches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with teaches. For points, the strongest plays are escheat and teaches — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teaches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cease, chase and chats. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including chase, chats and cheat.
Rearranging the letters in teaches produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case and cash. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including cash, chat and each.
Unscrambling teaches turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ash and ate. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
14 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in teaches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in teaches 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.
teaches 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 teaches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for teaches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
teaches is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing teaches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are escheat and teaches, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from teaches 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 teaches produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.