Hidden inside charm sit charm and march, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
charm and march tie for the highest Scrabble score from charm at 12 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in charm: one comes from rearranging its letters, and charm itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: charm and march, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in charm produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cram and harm. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in charm 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.
charm 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 eight senses for charm. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
charm is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing charm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are charm and march, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from charm 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 charm produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.