chasteness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 356 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chasteness is the highest-scoring word from chasteness, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 356 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in chasteness — and it is chasteness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chasteness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chastens, encashes, enchases and 5 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chasteness produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with teaches. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including teaches, achenes and chasses.
Unscrambling chasteness turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, ceases and chases. For points, 20 words tie at 11 points, including cashes, chases and cheats.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chasteness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, asses and cases. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including chase, chats and cheat.
Rearranging the letters in chasteness produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and cans. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including cash, chat and each.
Unscrambling chasteness turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ash. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chasteness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
chasteness 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 chasteness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chasteness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chasteness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chasteness, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chasteness 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 chasteness produce 356 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 11 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.