Hidden inside chapter sit chapter, patcher, and repatch, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PECTHAR, PTRACHE or REPACTH and you get the same 7 letters as CHAPTER: so the words from CHAPTER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
chapter, patcher, and repatch tie for the highest Scrabble score from chapter at 14 points. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in chapter: two come from rearranging its letters, and chapter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chapter. For points, the strongest plays are chapter, patcher, and repatch — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chapter turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet. For points, the strongest plays are eparch, hepcat, and preach — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chapter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, chart and cheap. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including cheap, patch and peach.
Rearranging the letters in chapter produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care and cart. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chapter turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and are. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including hap, hep and pah.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chapter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and eh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in chapter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chapter 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.
chapter 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 five senses for chapter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chapter is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chapter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chapter, patcher, and repatch, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chapter 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 chapter produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.