wretches needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wretches is the highest-scoring word from wretches, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in wretches — and it is wretches itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wretches produces 5 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 chewers and rechews, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wretches turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers, secret, and threes. For points, 6 words tie at 14 points, including chewer, crwths and eschew.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wretches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chest and chews. For points, the strongest plays are chews, crwth, and wecht — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wretches produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chew, crew and here. For points, the strongest play is chew — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wretches turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, see and set. For points, the strongest play is hew — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wretches. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, ew, he and 2 more, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in wretches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wretches 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.
wretches 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 wretches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for wretches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
wretches is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wretches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is wretches, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from wretches 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 wretches produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.