Hidden inside chickpeas sit chickpeas and peachicks, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 22 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chickpeas and peachicks tie for the highest Scrabble score from chickpeas at 22 points. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in chickpeas: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chickpeas itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chickpeas and peachicks, each worth 22 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chickpeas. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chickpea and peachick, each worth 21 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chickpeas produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is peckish, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chickpeas turns up 17 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: checks and chicks, worth 17 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chickpeas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cakes, capes, chase, cheap, check, chick, and chips. For points, the strongest plays are check and chick — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chickpeas produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cake, cape, caps, case, cash, and chip. For points, the strongest plays are hack, heck, hick, and kaph — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chickpeas turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ash, ask, cap, has, hip, and his. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chickpeas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, hi, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in chickpeas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chickpeas 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.
chickpeas 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 three senses for chickpeas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
chickpeas is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chickpeas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chickpeas and peachicks, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chickpeas 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 chickpeas produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.