chiselers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chiselers is the highest-scoring word from chiselers, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in chiselers — and it is chiselers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiselers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chiseler and schliere, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chiselers produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chisels, helices, lechers and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chiselers turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers, chiles and crises. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including cheers, chiles and chiels.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiselers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chess and chile. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including cheer, chess and chile.
Rearranging the letters in chiselers produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, heel and here. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including rich, chis and eche.
Unscrambling chiselers turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his and ice. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chiselers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in chiselers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chiselers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
chiselers 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 one sense for chiselers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chiselers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chiselers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chiselers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chiselers 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 chiselers produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.