Hidden inside chiming sit chiming and miching, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chiming and miching tie for the highest Scrabble score from chiming at 15 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in chiming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chiming itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chiming and miching, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiming. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ching and ginch, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chiming produces 4 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: chin and inch, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chiming turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, him, and ich — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm, and in. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in chiming plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chiming 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.
chiming 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
chiming is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chiming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chiming and miching, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chiming 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 chiming produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.