Hidden inside chrism sit chirms, chrism, and smirch, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chirms, chrism, and smirch tie for the highest Scrabble score from chrism at 13 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in chrism: two come from rearranging its letters, and chrism itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chirms, chrism, and smirch, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrism. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chirm, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chrism turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, him, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in chrism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chrism and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
chrism 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 chrism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
chrism is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chrism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chirms, chrism, and smirch, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chrism 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 chrism produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.