chances needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ACCHENS, NCCEASH or SCHNECA and you get the same 7 letters as CHANCES: so the words from CHANCES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
chances is the highest-scoring word from chances, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in chances — and it is chances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chase. For points, the strongest play is cache — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chances produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, case and cash. For points, the strongest plays are ache, cash, and each — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chances turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, can and has. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hen.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in chances plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chances 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.
chances 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 nine senses for chances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chances is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chances, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chances 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 chances produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.