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.
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.