Hidden inside touchstone sit touchstone and touchtones, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 344 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
touchstone and touchtones tie for the highest Scrabble score from touchstone at 15 points. The top 10 of 344 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in touchstone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and touchstone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are touchstone and touchtones, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling touchstone produces exactly one nine-letter word: touchtone. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchstone. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chestnut and couthest, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in touchstone produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest, cottons, notches, and touches. For points, the strongest plays are cohunes, notches, outecho, technos, and touches — 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 touchstone turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose, chosen, cotton, counts, cutest, honest, and soothe. For points, the strongest plays are choose, chosen, chotts, chouse, chutes, cohoes, cohost, cohune, couths, ochone, ouches, scouth, stench, techno, touche, and tusche — 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 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, chest, chose, cones, count, house, and hunts. For points, the strongest plays are chest, chons, chose, chott, chuse, chute, cohoe, cohos, couth, echos, hocus, notch, oches, techs, tench, teuch, and touch — 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 touchstone produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, cons, cost, cues, cute, and cuts. For points, the strongest plays are chon, coho, cosh, echo, echt, etch, oche, ouch, such, and tech — 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 touchstone turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, hen, hot, net, and not. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchstone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, no, oh, on, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, oh, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in touchstone plus one additional letter.
touchstone 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 one sense for touchstone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
touchstone is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing touchstone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are touchstone and touchtones, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from touchstone 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 touchstone produce 344 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.