Hidden inside chimeras sit chimeras and marchesi, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 353 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chimeras and marchesi tie for the highest Scrabble score from chimeras at 15 points. The top 10 of 353 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chimeras: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chimeras 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 chimeras and marchesi, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chimeras produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marches. For points, the strongest plays are chamise, charism, chimars, chimera, chimers, chrisma, machers, marches, mesarch, and schmear — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chimeras turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, chairs, charms, creams, crimes, scream, and search. For points, the strongest plays are charms, chiasm, chimar, chimer, chimes, chirms, chrism, haemic, macher, maches, miches, sachem, samech, schema, simcha, and smirch — 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 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chimeras. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, chair, charm, chase, crams, crash, and cream. For points, the strongest plays are chams, charm, chasm, chems, chime, chirm, hemic, mache, machs, march, mechs, 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 chimeras produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims, airs, arms, came, care, and cars. 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 chimeras turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ash, car, and ear. 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chimeras. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, eh, ha, he, and hi. 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 chimeras 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.
chimeras 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 chimeras. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chimeras is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chimeras unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chimeras and marchesi, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chimeras 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 chimeras produce 353 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.