Hidden inside tochered sit hectored and tochered, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hectored and tochered tie for the highest Scrabble score from tochered at 14 points. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tochered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tochered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hectored and tochered, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tochered produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cohered, derecho, ochered and 2 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tochered turns up 21 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cheder, chored, echoed and 3 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tochered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chore and other. For points, the strongest plays are chord and eched — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tochered produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord and core. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including eche, echo and echt.
Unscrambling tochered turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, her and hot. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tochered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tochered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tochered 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.
tochered 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 tochered carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tochered is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tochered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hectored and tochered, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tochered 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 tochered produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.