Hidden inside chaptering sit chaptering and repatching, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 723 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chaptering and repatching tie for the highest Scrabble score from chaptering at 18 points. The top 10 of 723 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in chaptering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chaptering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chaptering and repatching, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaptering 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 word is preaching, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaptering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catering, cheating and creating. For points, 5 words tie at 16 points, including patching, nightcap and parching.
Rearranging the letters in chaptering produces 66 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, chapter and cigaret. For points, the strongest plays are graphic and peching — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaptering turns up 121 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, caring and carpet. For points, 9 words tie at 13 points, including ceriph, cipher and eparch.
There are 171 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaptering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and cater. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including cheap, patch and peach.
Rearranging the letters in chaptering produces 188 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, cage and cape. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, chip, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaptering turns up 117 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and air. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including hip, chi and hap.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaptering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
chaptering 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
chaptering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chaptering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chaptering and repatching, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chaptering 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 chaptering produce 723 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 27 eight-letter words, 66 seven-letter words, 121 six-letter words, 171 five-letter words, 188 four-letter words, 117 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.