Hidden inside chalice sit caliche and chalice, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caliche and chalice tie for the highest Scrabble score from chalice at 14 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in chalice: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chalice itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caliche and chalice, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chalice turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chicle and cliche, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chalice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chile. For points, the strongest plays are cache, chica, and clach — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chalice produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with each, hail, heal, and lice. For points, the strongest play is chic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chalice turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice and lie. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chalice. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ah, eh, ha, he, and hi, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in chalice 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.
chalice 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 chalice. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chalice is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chalice unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caliche and chalice, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chalice 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 chalice produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.