Hidden inside choleras sit choleras and chorales, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 371 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
choleras and chorales tie for the highest Scrabble score from choleras at 13 points. The top 10 of 371 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in choleras: one comes from rearranging its letters, and choleras itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are choleras and chorales, 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 choleras produces 20 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cholera, cholers, chorale, chorals, choreal, choreas, clasher, larches, loaches, ochreas, oraches, roaches, and scholar, 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 choleras turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chores, clears, closer, and search. For points, the strongest plays are arches, chares, chaser, chelas, cholas, choler, choral, chorea, chores, cosher, eschar, laches, loches, ochers, ochrea, ochres, orache, schorl, and search — 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 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in choleras. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, chaos, chase, chore, chose, clear, and close. For points, the strongest plays are aches, chaos, chare, chars, chase, chela, chola, chore, chose, clash, crash, echos, larch, leach, loach, loche, lochs, ocher, oches, 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 choleras produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, care, cars, case, cash, cola, and core. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, cash, chao, char, cosh, 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 choleras turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash, car, ear, era, has, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in choleras. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh. 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.
Swap a single tile in choleras 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.
choleras 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 choleras. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
choleras is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing choleras unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are choleras and chorales, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from choleras 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 choleras produce 371 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.