Hidden inside choav is one standout: havoc, a five-letter play worth 13 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CHOVA, CAVOH or HCOVA and you get the same 5 letters as CHOAV: so the words from CHOAV listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CHOAV isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to HAVOC (verb), to destroy, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
havoc is the highest-scoring word from choav, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling choav produces exactly one five-letter word: havoc. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling choav produces exactly one four-letter word: chao. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in choav and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is havoc, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from choav 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 choav produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.