Hidden inside chattering sit chattering and ratcheting, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 554 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chattering and ratcheting tie for the highest Scrabble score from chattering at 16 points. The top 10 of 554 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in chattering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chattering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chattering and ratcheting, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chattering turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is racheting, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catering, chatting and cheating. For points, 6 words tie at 14 points, including chatting, cheating and reaching.
Rearranging the letters in chattering produces 59 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, cigaret and hearing. For points, 8 words tie at 13 points, including arching, cathing and chagrin.
Unscrambling chattering turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, caring and change. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including change, charge and aching.
There are 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and attic. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including chang, ching and gatch.
Rearranging the letters in chattering produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, cage and care. For points, the strongest play is gach — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chattering turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and air. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in chattering plus one additional letter.
chattering 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for chattering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
chattering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chattering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chattering and ratcheting, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chattering 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 chattering produce 554 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 59 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.