Unscramble MATCHES and you have 191 words, MATCHES itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 13: 5 of them, SCHEMA, SACHEM and MACHES included. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. MATCHES as a single 7-tile play makes 64 in Scrabble, 14 plus the 50 bonus, and 50 in Words With Friends (15 + 35).
Looking for cashmet, amhects, machets, mathesc, scathem, shametc, chmesta, hatesmc, chamest or cheatms? They use the same letters as MATCHES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from MATCHES split into 1 with 7 letters, 12 with 6, 47 with 5, 60 with 4, 51 with 3 and 20 with 2.
Among 47 5-letter words in MATCHES, the top score is 12, reached by 7. MATCH, TEAMS and TEACH are the familiar ones.
4 of 60 4-letter words from MATCHES tie at 11 points; none scores more. EACH, CASE and TECH will look familiar.
51 3-letter words you get when you unscramble MATCHES; 7 of them share the top score of 8. HAS, SET and ACT are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of MATCHES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with MA · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
What MATCHES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. MATCHES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATCHES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 191) | 161 | 191 | 144 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 30 of them: SMATCH, MEATHS, SMEATH, MEATH, SCATH, THEMA, CHAS, EMACS, SECH, ACH, ASHET, CHA and 18 more. Words With Friends* skips 17 of them: CHEMS, MECHS, CHEM, MECH, CATHS, TECHS, CATH, ECHT, TECH, MEH, AHS, MES and 5 more.
With one more tile, the letters of MATCHES spell the words below.