Hidden inside entrechats sit entrechats and ranchettes, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 686 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entrechats and ranchettes tie for the highest Scrabble score from entrechats at 15 points. The top 10 of 686 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in entrechats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and entrechats 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 entrechats and ranchettes, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling entrechats turns up 6 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with threatens. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including catheters, charettes and chastener.
There are 28 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entrechats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheaters, teachers, theaters, and threaten. For points, 15 words tie at 13 points, including cheaters, teachers and catheter.
Rearranging the letters in entrechats produces 79 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, cheater and creates. For points, 25 words tie at 12 points, including cheater, ranches and reaches.
Unscrambling entrechats turns up 145 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, center and charts. For points, 29 words tie at 11 points, including charts, cheats and cheers.
There are 186 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entrechats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saner, scare and scene. For points, 27 words tie at 10 points, including teach, chart and chase.
Rearranging the letters in entrechats produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and arts. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including cash, chat and each.
Unscrambling entrechats turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and are. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entrechats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
entrechats 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.
entrechats is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing entrechats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entrechats and ranchettes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from entrechats 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 entrechats produce 686 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 28 eight-letter words, 79 seven-letter words, 145 six-letter words, 186 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.