Hidden inside chertae sit cheater, hectare, recheat and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CHERTAE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CHEATER, HECTARE, RECHEAT, RETEACH and TEACHER.
cheater, hectare, recheat and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from chertae at 12 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in chertae produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheater and teacher. For points, the strongest plays are cheater, hectare, recheat, reteach, and teacher — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chertae turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with create. For points, the strongest plays are etcher, rachet, and thecae — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chertae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, chart, cheat, cheer, earth, heart, and reach. For points, the strongest plays are chare, chart, cheat, cheer, chert, ratch, reach, retch, tache, teach, and theca — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chertae produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, chat, each, hate, hear, and heat. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, cath, char, chat, each, eche, echt, etch, tach, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chertae turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hae, hat, her, het, rah, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chertae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in chertae plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chertae and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cheater, hectare, recheat, reteach, and teacher, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chertae 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 chertae produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.