chimera needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chimera is the highest-scoring word from chimera, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in chimera — and it is chimera itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chimera turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chimar, chimer, haemic, and macher, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chimera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chair, charm, cream, crime, march, and reach. For points, the strongest plays are charm, chime, chirm, hemic, mache, march, merch, 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 chimera produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, came, care, cram, each, hair, and harm. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, 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 chimera turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, car, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are chi, ham, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chimera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, eh, ha, he, hi, and hm. 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 chimera and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
chimera 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 chimera. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chimera is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chimera unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chimera, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chimera 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 chimera produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.