Hidden inside tachismes sit mastiches and tachismes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 447 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mastiches and tachismes tie for the highest Scrabble score from tachismes at 16 points. The top 10 of 447 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tachismes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tachismes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mastiches and tachismes, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tachismes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chamises, chemists, hematics, mastiche, misteach, tachisme, and tachisms, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tachismes produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with matches. For points, the strongest plays are chamise, chemist, chiasms, hematic, matches, sachems, samechs, schemas, simchas, and tachism — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tachismes turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, chases, cheats, chests, itches, shames, and shiest. For points, the strongest plays are chasms, chiasm, chimes, haemic, maches, miches, sachem, samech, schema, schism, and simcha — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tachismes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, cases, casts, chase, chats, cheat, and chess. For points, the strongest plays are chams, chasm, chems, chime, hemic, mache, machs, match, mechs, and miche — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tachismes produces 138 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ahem, aims, came, case, cash, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tachismes turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, ash, ass, ate, cat, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are chi, ham, hem, hic, him, ich, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tachismes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tachismes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tachismes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tachismes 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.
tachismes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tachismes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mastiches and tachismes, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tachismes 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 tachismes produce 447 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 138 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.