Hidden inside chalices sit caliches and chalices, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caliches and chalices tie for the highest Scrabble score from chalices at 15 points. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chalices: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chalices 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 caliches and chalices, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chalices produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caliche, chalice, chicles, and cliches, 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 chalices turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chiles. For points, the strongest plays are caches, chicas, chicle, clachs, 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chalices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, chase, chile, hails, heals, scale, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are cache, chica, chics, 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 chalices produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case, cash, each, hail, heal, ices, 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 chalices turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has, his, ice, lie, sea, and she. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chalices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, hi, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in chalices plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chalices 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.
chalices 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 chalices. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chalices is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chalices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caliches and chalices, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chalices 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 chalices produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.