Hidden inside chariots sit actorish, chariots, and haricots, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 325 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actorish, chariots, and haricots tie for the highest Scrabble score from chariots at 13 points. The top 10 of 325 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in chariots: two come from rearranging its letters, and chariots itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actorish, chariots, and haricots, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chariots produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chariot, haricot, isotach, and ostrich, 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 chariots turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, chairs, charts, choirs, racist, and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are chairs, charts, chiros, choirs, ichors, orchis, rachis, rhotic, starch, 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 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chariots. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carts, chair, chaos, chart, chats, and choir. For points, the strongest plays are aitch, archi, caths, chair, chais, chaos, chars, chart, chats, chiao, chias, chiro, chits, choir, crash, ichor, orach, ratch, roach, rotch, sitch, stich, tachs, 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 chariots produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, cars, cart, cash, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are arch, cash, cath, chai, chao, char, chat, chia, chis, chit, cosh, ichs, 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 chariots turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, art, ash, car, cat, and has. 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chariots. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, ha, hi, ho, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, ho, oh, and sh — 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 chariots and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
chariots 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 chariots carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for chariots. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
chariots is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chariots unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actorish, chariots, and haricots, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chariots 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 chariots produce 325 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.