Hidden inside chadarim sit chadarim and drachmai, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chadarim and drachmai tie for the highest Scrabble score from chadarim at 16 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chadarim: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chadarim itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chadarim and drachmai, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chadarim produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dharmic and drachma, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chadarim turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is drachm, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chadarim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chair, charm, drama, and march. For points, the strongest plays are charm, chirm, and march — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chadarim produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card and cram. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chadarim turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and aid. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and chi.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chadarim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and am. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in chadarim and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
chadarim 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.
chadarim is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chadarim unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chadarim and drachmai, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chadarim 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 chadarim produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.