Hidden inside chear sit chare and reach, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CHEAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CHARE and REACH.
chare and reach tie for the highest Scrabble score from chear at 10 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reach. For points, the strongest plays are chare and reach — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chear produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, each, hear, and race. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, char, and each — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
25 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in chear plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chear and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chare and reach, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chear 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 chear produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.