chimp needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chimp is the highest-scoring word from chimp, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in chimp — and it is chimp itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chimp produces exactly one four-letter word: chip. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chimp turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him and hip. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, him, hip, ich, and phi — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chimp. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in chimp plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chimp and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
chimp 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for chimp. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chimp is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chimp unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chimp, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chimp 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 chimp produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.