Hidden inside chivarees sit achievers and chivarees, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 325 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
achievers and chivarees tie for the highest Scrabble score from chivarees at 17 points. The top 10 of 325 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in chivarees: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chivarees itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are achievers and chivarees, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chivarees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with achieves. For points, the strongest plays are achiever, achieves, archives, 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 chivarees produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with achieve, heavier, reaches, and service. For points, the strongest plays are achieve, archive, chevies, chevres, and seviche — 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 chivarees turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carves, chairs, cheers, easier, and search. For points, the strongest plays are chevre and chives — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chivarees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carve, caves, cease, chair, chase, and cheer. For points, the strongest plays are chive and schav — each 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 chivarees produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, care, cars, case, cash, cave, and each. For points, the strongest plays are have, hive, and shiv — 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 chivarees turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ash, car, ear, era, and eve. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chivarees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, hi, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in chivarees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chivarees 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.
chivarees 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 chivarees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
chivarees is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chivarees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are achievers and chivarees, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chivarees 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 chivarees produce 325 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.