chimere 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, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chimere is the highest-scoring word from chimere, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in chimere — and it is chimere itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chimere produces exactly one six-letter word: chimer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chimere. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer and crime. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including chime, chirm and hemic.
Rearranging the letters in chimere produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hire and mice. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chimere turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, him, and ice. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including him, chi and hem.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in chimere plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chimere 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.
chimere 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.
chimere is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chimere unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chimere, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chimere 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 chimere produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.