Hidden inside chanters sit chanters, snatcher, stancher and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 391 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chanters, snatcher, stancher and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from chanters at 13 points. The top 10 of 391 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in chanters: three come from rearranging its letters, and chanters 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 chanters, snatcher, stancher, and tranches, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chanters produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ranches. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including ranches, chanter and chasten.
Unscrambling chanters turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, charts and cheats. For points, 22 words tie at 11 points, including charts, cheats and search.
There are 115 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chanters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts and cater. For points, 24 words tie at 10 points, including chart, chase and chats.
Rearranging the letters in chanters produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and arts. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including cash, chat and each.
Unscrambling chanters turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and are. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chanters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
13 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in chanters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chanters 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.
chanters 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 one sense for chanters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
chanters is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chanters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chanters, snatcher, stancher, and tranches, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chanters 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 chanters produce 391 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 115 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.