Hidden inside chillers sit chillers and schiller, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chillers and schiller tie for the highest Scrabble score from chillers at 13 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chillers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chillers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chillers and schiller, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chillers produces 2 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 chiller, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chillers turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chiles and chills. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including chiles, chills and chiels.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chillers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cells, chile and chill. For points, the strongest plays are chiel, chile, and chill — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chillers produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cell, hell and hers. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including rich, chis and ichs.
Unscrambling chillers turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his and ice. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chillers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in chillers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chillers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
chillers 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 one sense for chillers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
chillers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chillers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chillers and schiller, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chillers 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 chillers produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.