chivalry needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chivalry is the highest-scoring word from chivalry, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in chivalry — and it is chivalry itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chivalry produces 2 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 charily and vicarly, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chivalry turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are archly and richly, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chivalry. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chair, hairy, and lyric. For points, the strongest plays are chivy and vichy — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chivalry produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clay, hail and hair. For points, the strongest plays are achy, cavy, chay, and lych — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chivalry turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, car and cry. For points, the strongest plays are hay, ivy, and yah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in chivalry 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.
chivalry 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 chivalry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
chivalry is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chivalry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chivalry, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chivalry 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 chivalry produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.