Hidden inside chiasmas sit chamisas and chiasmas, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chamisas and chiasmas tie for the highest Scrabble score from chiasmas at 15 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chiasmas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chiasmas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chamisas and chiasmas, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chiasmas produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chamisa, chiasma, chiasms, and simchas, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chiasmas turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chasms, chiasm, schism, and simcha, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiasmas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scams and smash. For points, the strongest plays are chams, chasm, and machs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chiasmas produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, cash and hams. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chiasmas turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and chi.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiasmas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in chiasmas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chiasmas 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.
chiasmas 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
chiasmas is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chiasmas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chamisas and chiasmas, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chiasmas 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 chiasmas produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.