Hidden inside charnel sit charnel and larchen, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
charnel and larchen tie for the highest Scrabble score from charnel at 12 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in charnel: one comes from rearranging its letters, and charnel 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 charnel and larchen, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling charnel produces exactly one six-letter word: lancer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in charnel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, clear and learn. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including ranch, reach and chare.
Rearranging the letters in charnel produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, each and earn. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including each, ache and arch.
Unscrambling charnel turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, can and car. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including hen, her and nah.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in charnel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and eh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in charnel plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in charnel 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.
charnel 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for charnel. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
charnel is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing charnel unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are charnel and larchen, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from charnel 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 charnel produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 20 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.