Hidden inside childe sit chield and childe, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chield and childe tie for the highest Scrabble score from childe at 12 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in childe: one comes from rearranging its letters, and childe itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chield and childe, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in childe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with child and chile. For points, the strongest plays are chide and child — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in childe produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dice, held, hide, lice, and lied. For points, the strongest play is chid — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling childe turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, hid, ice, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in childe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and id. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 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 childe and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
childe 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.
childe is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing childe unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chield and childe, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from childe 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 childe produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.