Hidden inside chariot sit chariot and haricot, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chariot and haricot tie for the highest Scrabble score from chariot at 12 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in chariot: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chariot itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chariot and haricot, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chariot turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rhotic and thoric, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chariot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, chair, chart, and choir. For points, the strongest plays are aitch, archi, chair, chart, chiao, chiro, choir, ichor, orach, ratch, roach, rotch, and torch — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chariot produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, chat, coat, hair, itch, oath, and rich. For points, the strongest plays are arch, cath, chai, chao, char, chat, chia, chit, itch, rich, and tach — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chariot turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, art, car, cat, hat, and hit. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chariot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, ha, hi, ho, it, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in chariot 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.
chariot 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 chariot carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for chariot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
chariot is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chariot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chariot and haricot, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chariot 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 chariot produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.