chertiest needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 280 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chertiest is the highest-scoring word from chertiest, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 280 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in chertiest — and it is chertiest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chertiest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chestier, chitters, esthetic and 5 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chertiest produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with richest and stretch. For points, 12 words tie at 12 points, including richest, stretch and chitter.
Unscrambling chertiest turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers, either and itches. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including cheers, itches and cherts.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chertiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chest and cries. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including cheer, chest and chert.
Rearranging the letters in chertiest produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hers and hire. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including itch, rich and chis.
Unscrambling chertiest turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his and hit. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chertiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in chertiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chertiest and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
chertiest 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 chertiest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
chertiest is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chertiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chertiest, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chertiest 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 chertiest produce 280 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.