Hidden inside chatters sit chatters and ratchets, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 289 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chatters and ratchets tie for the highest Scrabble score from chatters at 13 points. The top 10 of 289 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chatters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chatters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chatters and ratchets, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chatters produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shatter, stretch, and threats. For points, the strongest plays are chaster, chatter, rachets, ratches, ratchet, and stretch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chatters turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, charts, cheats, hearts, reacts, search, and threat. For points, the strongest plays are arches, chares, charts, chaser, chaste, cheats, cherts, eschar, rachet, sachet, scathe, search, starch, and taches — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chatters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts, cater, chart, chase, chats, and cheat. For points, the strongest plays are aches, caths, chare, chars, chart, chase, chats, cheat, chert, chest, crash, ratch, reach, retch, tache, tachs, teach, techs, and theca — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chatters produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, care, cars, cart, case, and cash. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, cash, cath, char, chat, each, echt, etch, tach, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chatters turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ash, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, her, hes, het, rah, sha, she, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chatters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in chatters 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.
chatters 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 chatters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eight senses for chatters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
chatters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chatters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chatters and ratchets, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chatters 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 chatters produce 289 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.