Hidden inside chare sit chare and reach, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chare and reach tie for the highest Scrabble score from chare at 10 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in chare: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chare itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reach. For points, the strongest plays are chare and reach — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chare produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, each, hear, and race. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, char, and each — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
25 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in chare plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chare 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.
chare 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 chare carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
chare is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chare unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chare and reach, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chare 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 chare produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.