Hidden inside cholera sit cholera, chorale, and choreal, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cholera, chorale, and choreal tie for the highest Scrabble score from cholera at 12 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in cholera: two come from rearranging its letters, and cholera 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 cholera, chorale, and choreal, 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 cholera turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are choler, choral, chorea, ochrea, and orache, 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cholera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chore, clear, and reach. For points, the strongest plays are chare, chela, chola, chore, larch, leach, loach, loche, ocher, ochre, orach, reach, and roach — 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 cholera produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cola, core, each, heal, hear, and hero. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, chao, char, each, echo, lech, loch, and oche — 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 cholera turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, and her. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cholera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh — 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 cholera 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.
cholera 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 cholera. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cholera is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cholera unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cholera, chorale, and choreal, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cholera 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 cholera produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.