chihuahua 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, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chihuahua is the highest-scoring word from chihuahua, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in chihuahua — and it is chihuahua itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in chihuahua plus one additional letter.
chihuahua 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 4-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 chihuahua. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
chihuahua is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chihuahua unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chihuahua, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chihuahua 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 chihuahua produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.