cholents needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cholents is the highest-scoring word from cholents, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in cholents — and it is cholents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cholents produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clothes and notches. For points, the strongest plays are cholent, clothes, notches, and technos — 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 cholents turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chosen, clones, closet, honest, hotels, and stolen. For points, the strongest plays are chosen, clothe, cloths, loches, stench, and techno — 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 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cholents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, chest, chose, clone, close, cones, and holes. For points, the strongest plays are chest, chons, chose, cloth, echos, letch, loche, lochs, notch, oches, techs, and tench — 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 cholents produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, cons, cost, hens, hole, and hose. For points, the strongest plays are chon, cosh, echo, echt, etch, lech, loch, oche, 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 cholents turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, hen, hot, let, lot, net, and not. 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cholents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, no, oh, on, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in cholents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cholents and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cholents 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
cholents is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cholents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cholents, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cholents 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 cholents produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.