Hidden inside chortens sit chortens and notchers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 321 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chortens and notchers tie for the highest Scrabble score from chortens at 13 points. The top 10 of 321 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chortens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chortens 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 chortens and notchers, 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 chortens produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notches. For points, the strongest plays are chorten, hectors, notcher, notches, rochets, rotches, technos, tochers, torches, and troches — 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 chortens turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chores, chosen, honest, others, and sector. For points, the strongest plays are cherts, chores, chosen, cosher, hector, ochers, ochres, rochet, rotche, stench, techno, tocher, trench, and troche — 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 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chortens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, chest, chore, chose, cones, cores, and corns. For points, the strongest plays are chert, chest, chons, chore, chose, echos, notch, ocher, oches, ochre, retch, rotch, techs, tench, and torch — 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 chortens produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, cons, core, corn, cost, and hens. For points, the strongest plays are chon, cosh, echo, echt, etch, 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 chortens turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, hen, her, hot, net, nor, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chortens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, no, oh, on, and or. 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 chortens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chortens 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.
chortens is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
chortens is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chortens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chortens and notchers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chortens 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 chortens produce 321 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.