chastise needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chastise is the highest-scoring word from chastise, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in chastise — and it is chastise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chastise produces 9 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 achiest, aitches, chaises and 3 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chastise turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, chases and cheats. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including cashes, chases and cheats.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chastise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, cases and casts. For points, 19 words tie at 10 points, including chase, chats and cheat.
Rearranging the letters in chastise produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case and cash. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including cash, chat and each.
Unscrambling chastise turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ash and ass. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chastise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
12 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in chastise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chastise 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.
chastise 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 chastise carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for chastise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
chastise is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chastise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chastise, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chastise 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 chastise produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.