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.
Rearranging the letters in chimeras produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marches. For points, 10 words tie at 14 points, including marches, chamise and charism.
Unscrambling chimeras turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, chairs and charms. For points, 16 words tie at 13 points, including charms, chiasm and chimar.
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 and charm. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including charm, march and chams.
Rearranging the letters in chimeras produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims and airs. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chimeras turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and chi.
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 and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in chimeras plus one additional letter.
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.