Unscramble BOTCHINGS and you have 248 words, BOTCHINGS itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. BOTCHING is the best of the shorter words, at 16 points. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BOTCHINGS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 8 with 7, 35 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 23 with 2.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in BOTCHINGS: BOTCHING, 16 points.
Among the 6-letter words from BOTCHINGS, BIGHTS, CHINGS and GOTHIC tie for first at 12 points. THINGS, NIGHTS and THONGS are everyday picks.
The 5-letter words you get when you unscramble BOTCHINGS are led by BITCH, BOTCH and CHIBS, 12 points each. NIGHT, THING and COINS are the familiar ones.
The best of the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BOTCHINGS is CHIB, 11 points; CHOG on 10 and BISH on 9 follow. BOTH, HOST and HITS are everyday picks.
Of the 60 3-letter words from BOTCHINGS, 7 score 8 points, the group's best. BIG, HOT and GOT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of BOTCHINGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with BO · ending in GS · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with BOTCHING (16 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts BOTCHINGS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOTCHINGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 248) | 197 | 247 | 168 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 51 of them: BOTCHINGS, CHIBS, CHIB, CHOGS, NICHTS, THINGOS, TOSHING, CHOG, COTHS, HONGIS, NICHT, SICHT and 39 more. Words With Friends* skips 29 of them: CHINGS, CHING, GINCH, GITCH, GONCH, GOTCH, CHONS, SITCH, BISH, BOINGS, GOTHS, HONGI and 17 more. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: BINTS.
With one more tile, the letters of BOTCHINGS spell the words below.