Hidden inside chars sit chars and crash, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 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.
chars and crash tie for the highest Scrabble score from chars at 10 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 chars: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chars itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crash. For points, the strongest plays are chars and crash — 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 chars produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cars, cash, rash, and scar. For points, the strongest plays are arch, cash, and char — 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 chars turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, car, and has. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, has, rah, and sha — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, ha, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, 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 chars 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.
chars 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 chars carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for chars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
chars is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chars and crash, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chars 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 chars 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, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.