Hidden inside choirs sit chiros, choirs, ichors and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chiros, choirs, ichors and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from choirs at 11 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in choirs: three come from rearranging its letters, and choirs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choirs. For points, the strongest plays are chiros, choirs, ichors, and orchis — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in choirs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choir. For points, the strongest plays are chiro, choir, and ichor — 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 choirs produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rich. For points, the strongest plays are chis, cosh, ichs, and rich — 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 choirs turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his and sir. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — 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 choirs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho, is, oh, or, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are hi, 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.
Swap a single tile in choirs and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
choirs 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in choirs carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for choirs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
choirs is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing choirs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chiros, choirs, ichors, and orchis, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from choirs 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 choirs produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.