chastises needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chastises is the highest-scoring word from chastises, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in chastises — and it is chastises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chastises produces exactly one eight-letter word: chastise. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chastises produces 16 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 6 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chastises turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assist, cashes and chases. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including cashes, chases and cheats.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chastises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, asses and cases. For points, 19 words tie at 10 points, including chase, chats and cheat.
Rearranging the letters in chastises produces 80 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 chastises 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 chastises. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in chastises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chastises and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
chastises 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 chastises carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for chastises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chastises is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chastises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chastises, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chastises 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 chastises produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 16 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.