Unscramble ESTRICH and you have 190 words, ESTRICH itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. ESTRICH has 2 anagrams here, CITHERS and RICHEST, scoring 12 like ESTRICH itself. The best shorter words score 11: 12 of them, ETHICS, THRICE and RICHES included. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. ESTRICH as a single 7-tile play makes 62 in Scrabble, 12 plus the 50 bonus, and 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from ESTRICH by length: 3 with 7 letters, 17 with 6, 53 with 5, 60 with 4, 42 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Of the 53 5-letter words from ESTRICH, 14 score 10 points, the group's best. SHIRT, CHEST and TRIES are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ESTRICH; 12 of them share the top score of 9. TECH, REST and HITS are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of ESTRICH but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with ES · ending in CH · all 7-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; CITHERS and RICHEST (12 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ESTRICH is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESTRICH itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 190) | 140 | 189 | 122 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ESTRICH, CHIRTS, CRITHS, RICHTS, STRICH, THEICS, TICHES, CHIRT, CRITH, ICHES, RICHT, SICHT and 37 more, 49 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SITCH, TECHS, ECHT, TECH, RECITS, SHITE, CERTS, CRITS, ETICS, RECIT, CERT, CRIT and 6 more, 18 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of ESTRICH spell the words below.