chantey needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chantey is the highest-scoring word from chantey, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in chantey — and it is chantey itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chantey produces exactly one six-letter word: chanty. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chantey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheat and teach. For points, the strongest plays are techy and yacht — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chantey produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, chat and each. For points, the strongest plays are achy, chay, and yech — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chantey turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and any. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hay, hey and thy.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chantey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and eh.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in chantey plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chantey 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.
chantey 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in chantey carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for chantey. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chantey is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chantey unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chantey, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chantey 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 chantey produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 16 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.