Hidden inside chivies sit chivies and vichies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chivies and vichies tie for the highest Scrabble score from chivies at 15 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in chivies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chivies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chivies and vichies, 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 chivies turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chives, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chivies. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word 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 chivies produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices and vice. For points, the strongest plays are 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 chivies turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, ice, and she. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chivies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in chivies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chivies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
chivies 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.
chivies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chivies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chivies and vichies, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chivies 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 chivies produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.