Hidden inside chlorates sit chelators, chlorates, and trochleas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 819 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chelators, chlorates, and trochleas tie for the highest Scrabble score from chlorates at 14 points. The top 10 of 819 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in chlorates: two come from rearranging its letters, and chlorates 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 chelators, chlorates, and trochleas, 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 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chlorates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chelator, chlorate, cholates, choleras, chorales, chortles, eschalot, thoraces, trachles, and trochlea, 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 chlorates produces 67 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clothes, coaster, and locates. For points, the strongest plays are chalets, chaster, cholate, cholera, cholers, chorale, chorals, choreal, choreas, chortle, clasher, clothes, hectors, larches, latches, loaches, ochreas, oraches, rachets, ratches, roaches, rochets, rotches, satchel, scholar, tochers, torches, trachle, trochal, and troches — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chlorates turns up 142 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, alerts, alters, castle, caters, charts, and cheats. For points, the strongest plays are arches, chalet, chalot, chares, charts, chaser, chaste, cheats, chelas, cherts, cholas, choler, choral, chorea, chores, clothe, cloths, cosher, eschar, hector, laches, loches, ochers, ochrea, ochres, orache, rachet, rochet, rotche, sachet, scathe, schorl, search, slatch, starch, taches, thecal, tocher, and troche — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 241 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chlorates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, roles, scale, scare, score, share, and short. For points, the strongest plays are roach, rotch, tache, tachs, teach, techs, aches, caths, chaos, chare, chars, chart, chase, chats, cheat, chela, chert, chest, chola, chore, chose, clash, cloth, crash, echos, larch, latch, leach, letch, loach, loche, lochs, ocher, oches, ochre, orach, ratch, reach, retch, theca, and torch — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chlorates produces 223 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, arts, care, cars, cart, and case. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, cash, cath, chao, char, chat, cosh, each, echo, echt, etch, lech, loch, oche, tach, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chlorates turns up 102 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ash, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chlorates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in chlorates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chlorates 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.
chlorates 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 chlorates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
chlorates is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chlorates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chelators, chlorates, and trochleas, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chlorates 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 chlorates produce 819 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 67 seven-letter words, 142 six-letter words, 241 five-letter words, 223 four-letter words, 102 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.