chantry 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, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chantry is the highest-scoring word from chantry, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in chantry — and it is chantry itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chantry 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chantry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chart and ranch. For points, the strongest plays are chary and yacht — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chantry produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, chat, than, and tray. For points, the strongest plays are achy and chay — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chantry turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and any. For points, the strongest plays are hay, thy, and yah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chantry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ay, ha, and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in chantry 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.
chantry 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 chantry carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for chantry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chantry is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chantry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chantry, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chantry 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 chantry produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.