Hidden inside chiasms sit chiasms and simchas, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chiasms and simchas tie for the highest Scrabble score from chiasms at 14 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in chiasms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chiasms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chiasms and simchas, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chiasms turns up 4 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiasms. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chiasms produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, cash, hams, mass, miss, and scam. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chiasms turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ash, ass, ham, has, him, and his. For points, the strongest plays are chi, ham, hic, him, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiasms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, ha, hi, hm, and is. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in chiasms 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.
chiasms 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for chiasms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chiasms is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chiasms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chiasms and simchas, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chiasms 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 chiasms produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.