chaperones needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 795 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chaperones is the highest-scoring word from chaperones, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 795 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in chaperones — and it is chaperones itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaperones turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canephors, chaperone, chaperons, and prechosen, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaperones. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canephor, chaperon, cheapens and 6 more, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chaperones produces 65 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anchors, cheaper and openers. For points, 18 words tie at 14 points, including cheaper, peaches and porches.
Unscrambling chaperones turns up 151 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anchor, cheers and chores. For points, 12 words tie at 13 points, including speech, carhop and chapes.
There are 228 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaperones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nacho, ocean and opens. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including peach, porch and cheap.
Rearranging the letters in chaperones produces 199 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cans and cape. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, chop, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaperones turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ash. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including hop, hap and hep.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaperones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
chaperones 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for chaperones. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
chaperones is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chaperones unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chaperones, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chaperones 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 chaperones produce 795 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 65 seven-letter words, 151 six-letter words, 228 five-letter words, 199 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.