Hidden inside chant sit chant and natch, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chant and natch tie for the highest Scrabble score from chant at 10 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in chant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chant and natch, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chant produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chat and than. For points, the strongest plays are cath, chat, and tach — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chant turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, hat, nah, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are hat, nah, and nth — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah and ha — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in chant and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
chant 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for chant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
chant is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chant and natch, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chant 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 chant produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.