chafer needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chafer is the highest-scoring word from chafer, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in chafer — and it is chafer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chafer produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe, care and chef. For points, the strongest play is chef — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chafer turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car and ear. For points, the strongest plays are fah and feh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in chafer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chafer and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
chafer 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in chafer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
chafer is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chafer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chafer, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chafer 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 chafer produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.