chevrons needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chevrons is the highest-scoring word from chevrons, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in chevrons — and it is chevrons itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chevrons produces exactly one seven-letter word: chevron. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chevrons turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chores, chosen, and covers. For points, the strongest plays are hovers, shover, and shrove — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chevrons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chore, chose and cones. For points, the strongest plays are hover and shove — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chevrons produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons and core. For points, the strongest play is hove — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chevrons turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, hen and her. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chevrons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and ho. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and ho.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in chevrons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chevrons 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.
chevrons 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for chevrons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
chevrons is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chevrons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chevrons, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chevrons 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 chevrons produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 18 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.