Hidden inside chime sit chime, hemic, and miche, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chime, hemic, and miche tie for the highest Scrabble score from chime at 12 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in chime: two come from rearranging its letters, and chime itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chime, hemic, and miche, 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 chime produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mice. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — 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 chime turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him and ice. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hem, hic, him, ich, and meh — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, and me. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 chime and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
chime 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 chime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
chime is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chime, hemic, and miche, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chime 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 chime produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.