chalcedony needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 341 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chalcedony is the highest-scoring word from chalcedony, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 341 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in chalcedony — and it is chalcedony itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chalcedony produces exactly one nine-letter word: calcedony. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chalcedony produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coached. For points, the strongest play is lynched — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chalcedony turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancel, candle and chance. For points, the strongest plays are chancy and conchy — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chalcedony. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, candy and clean. For points, the strongest play is yecch — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chalcedony produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, clay and code. For points, the strongest plays are achy, chay, lych, and yech — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chalcedony turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, any and aye. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hay, hey and hoy.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chalcedony. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and eh.
chalcedony 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for chalcedony. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
chalcedony is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chalcedony unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chalcedony, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chalcedony 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 chalcedony produce 341 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 16 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.