Hidden inside chanteuse sit chanteuse and unteaches, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 353 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chanteuse and unteaches tie for the highest Scrabble score from chanteuse at 14 points. The top 10 of 353 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in chanteuse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chanteuse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chanteuse and unteaches, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chanteuse. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chutnees, nautches, and unchaste, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chanteuse produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with teaches. For points, the strongest plays are achenes, canthus, chasten, chaunts, chutnee, enchase, escheat, staunch, teaches, tenches, and unteach — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chanteuse turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheats and haunts. For points, the strongest plays are achene, chants, chaste, chaunt, cheats, chutes, cushat, encash, etches, hances, naches, nautch, nuchae, sachet, scathe, snatch, stanch, stench, taches, thecae, thence, and tusche — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chanteuse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, cause, cease, cents, chase, chats, and cheat. For points, the strongest plays are aches, caths, chant, chase, chats, cheat, chest, chuse, chute, eches, hance, hence, natch, nucha, sauch, tache, tachs, teach, techs, tench, teuch, and theca — 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 chanteuse produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, aunt, cans, case, and cash. For points, the strongest plays are ache, cash, cath, chat, each, eche, echt, etch, such, tach, and tech — 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 chanteuse turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ash, ate, can, cat, and cue. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, hen, hes, het, hue, hun, hut, nah, nth, sha, she, and the — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chanteuse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in chanteuse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chanteuse and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
chanteuse 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.
chanteuse is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chanteuse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chanteuse and unteaches, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chanteuse 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 chanteuse produce 353 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.