Hidden inside hierarchies sit hierarchies and hierarchise, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 306 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hierarchies and hierarchise tie for the highest Scrabble score from hierarchies at 19 points. The top 10 of 306 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in hierarchies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hierarchies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hierarchies and hierarchise, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling hierarchies produces exactly one ten-letter word: heresiarch. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hierarchies turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cherisher and hierarchs, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hierarchies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cherries and research. For points, the strongest plays are cheshire and hierarch — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hierarchies produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers, carries, cherish, hairier, harsher, reaches, and scarier. For points, the strongest plays are cherish and rhachis — 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 hierarchies turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career, chairs, cheers, easier, richer, and search. For points, the strongest plays are heishi and rehash — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hierarchies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cease, chair, chase, cheer, crash, and cries. For points, the strongest play is harsh — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hierarchies produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, care, cars, case, cash, each, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are hahs, hash, hehs, and shah — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hierarchies turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ash, car, ear, era, and hah. For points, the strongest plays are hah, heh, and shh — each worth 9 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 hierarchies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, hi, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in hierarchies plus one additional letter.
hierarchies 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 two senses for hierarchies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
hierarchies is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hierarchies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hierarchies and hierarchise, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hierarchies 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 hierarchies produce 306 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.