Unscramble QUETCHED and you have 68 words, QUETCHED itself among them: it scores 23 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from QUETCHED split into 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 6, 9 with 5, 22 with 4, 20 with 3 and 10 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of QUETCHED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with QU · ending in ED · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with CHEQUE (20 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
QUETCHED 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUETCHED itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 68) | 55 | 68 | 49 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 13 of them: QUETCHED, QUETCH, QUETHE, CHUT, EECH, THEED, CHE, ECH, EHED, CH, ETHE, HETE and 1 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: ECHT, TECH, DUH, TEC, UTE and TE.