Hidden inside chivaree sit achiever and chivaree, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
achiever and chivaree tie for the highest Scrabble score from chivaree at 16 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chivaree: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chivaree 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 achiever and chivaree, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chivaree produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with achieve and heavier. For points, the strongest plays are achieve and archive — 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.
Unscrambling chivaree turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chevre, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chivaree. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carve, chair, cheer, and reach. For points, the strongest play is chive — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chivaree produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cave, each, ever, hair, have, and hear. For points, the strongest plays are have and hive — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chivaree turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, car, ear, era, eve, and her. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and vac — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chivaree. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ah, eh, ha, he, and hi, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in chivaree 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.
chivaree 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 chivaree. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
chivaree is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chivaree unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are achiever and chivaree, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chivaree 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 chivaree produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.