Hidden inside chaldron sit chaldron and chlordan, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chaldron and chlordan tie for the highest Scrabble score from chaldron at 14 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chaldron: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chaldron 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 chaldron and chlordan, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chaldron produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chordal, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaldron turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anchor. For points, the strongest play is chador — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaldron. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoard, nacho, and ranch. For points, the strongest plays are chard and chord — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chaldron produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, cola and cold. For points, the strongest play is chad — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaldron turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, can and car. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaldron. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in chaldron plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chaldron 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.
chaldron 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 chaldron. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chaldron is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chaldron unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chaldron and chlordan, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chaldron 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 chaldron produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.