Hidden inside charisma sit archaism and charisma, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
archaism and charisma tie for the highest Scrabble score from charisma at 15 points. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in charisma: one comes from rearranging its letters, and charisma 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 archaism and charisma, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in charisma produces 5 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 chamisa, charism, chiasma and 2 more, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling charisma turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chairs and charms. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including charms, chiasm and chimar.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in charisma. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chair, charm and crams. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including charm, march and chams.
Rearranging the letters in charisma produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling charisma turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and chi.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in charisma. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in charisma plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in charisma 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.
charisma 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 one sense for charisma. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
charisma is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing charisma unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are archaism and charisma, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from charisma 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 charisma produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.