Hidden inside chata sit cath, chat, and tach, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HAACT, ACTHA or HACTA and you get the same 5 letters as CHATA: so the words from CHATA listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
cath, chat, and tach tie for the highest Scrabble score from chata at 9 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cath, chat, and tach, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chata 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 chata produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.