chautauqua needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 24 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chautauqua is the highest-scoring word from chautauqua, worth 24 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in chautauqua — and it is chautauqua itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 24 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chautauqua turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act and aha. For points, the strongest plays are qat and qua — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chautauqua. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, ha, and uh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in chautauqua plus one additional letter.
chautauqua 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
chautauqua is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chautauqua unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chautauqua, worth 24 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chautauqua 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 chautauqua produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.