chieftains needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 527 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chieftains is the highest-scoring word from chieftains, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 527 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in chieftains — and it is chieftains itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chieftains turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chieftain, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chieftains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fanciest. For points, the strongest plays are fintechs and shitface — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chieftains produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fiances and infects. For points, the strongest plays are catfish, fiaschi, finches, fintech, fitches, and icefish — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chieftains turns up 88 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chains, cheats, chiefs, cities, faiths, fiance, and finest. For points, the strongest plays are chafes, chiefs, fetich, and fiches — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 131 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chieftains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafes, cents, chain, chase, chats, cheat, and chefs. For points, the strongest plays are chafe, chefs, chief, fetch, fiche, finch, and fitch — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chieftains produces 153 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cafe, cans, case, cash, and cast. For points, the strongest play is chef — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chieftains turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ash, ate, can, cat, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are fah and feh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chieftains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ef, eh, fa, fe, ha, he, hi, if, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
chieftains 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 two senses for chieftains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
chieftains is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chieftains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chieftains, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chieftains 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 chieftains produce 527 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 88 six-letter words, 131 five-letter words, 153 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.