Hidden inside thickens sit kitchens and thickens, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 229 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kitchens and thickens tie for the highest Scrabble score from thickens at 17 points. The top 10 of 229 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in thickens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thickens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kitchens. For points, the strongest plays are kitchens and thickens — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thickens produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kitchen. For points, the strongest plays are hickest, kitchen, and thicken — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling thickens turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inches, itches, nicest, sketch, and thinks. For points, the strongest plays are chinks, kitsch, schtik, shtick, sketch, and thicks — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thickens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, chest, chins, hikes, hints, kites, and knits. For points, the strongest plays are chink, hecks, hicks, kench, ketch, and thick — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thickens produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, chin, heck, hens, hike, hint, and hits. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hick — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling thickens turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, his, hit, ice, ink, its, and kit. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thickens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 thickens and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
thickens 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 three senses for thickens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
thickens is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thickens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kitchens and thickens, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thickens 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 thickens produce 229 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.