chalaza needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chalaza is the highest-scoring word from chalaza, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in chalaza — and it is chalaza itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chalaza produces exactly one four-letter word: cazh. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in chalaza plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chalaza and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
chalaza 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for chalaza. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
chalaza is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chalaza unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chalaza, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chalaza 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 chalaza produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.