Hidden inside cholines sit cholines and helicons, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 261 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cholines and helicons tie for the highest Scrabble score from cholines at 13 points. The top 10 of 261 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cholines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cholines 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 cholines and helicons, 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 cholines produces 6 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 choline, cohesin, helicon, and lichens, 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 cholines turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chiles, chosen, clones, and inches. For points, the strongest plays are chiels, chiles, chines, chinos, chinse, chisel, choils, cholis, chosen, inches, lichen, liches, loches, and niches — 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 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cholines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chile, chins, chose, clone, close, coins, and cones. For points, the strongest plays are chiel, chile, chine, chino, chins, choil, choli, chons, chose, echos, loche, lochs, niche, and oches — 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 cholines produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, coin, cone, cons, hens, hole, and hose. For points, the strongest plays are chin, chis, chon, cosh, echo, ichs, inch, lech, lich, 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 cholines turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, hen, his, ice, lie, oil, and one. 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cholines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, in, is, and no. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, 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 cholines 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.
cholines 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for cholines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cholines is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cholines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cholines and helicons, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cholines 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 cholines produce 261 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.