chicories needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chicories is the highest-scoring word from chicories, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in chicories — and it is chicories itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chicories produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choices. For points, the strongest plays are choicer, choices, and choreic — 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 chicories turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choice, choirs, chores, and soccer. For points, the strongest plays are chicer, chicos, choice, choric, echoic, and scorch — 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chicories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choir, chore, chose, cores, cries, hires, and horse. For points, the strongest plays are chico, chics, and chocs — 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 chicories produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, hero, hers, hire, hose, ices, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are chic and choc — 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 chicories turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, ice, she, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chicories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in chicories plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chicories 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.
chicories 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 four senses for chicories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
chicories is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chicories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chicories, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chicories 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 chicories produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.