Hidden inside christens sit christens and snitchers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 362 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
christens and snitchers tie for the highest Scrabble score from christens at 14 points. The top 10 of 362 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in christens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and christens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are christens and snitchers, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in christens. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chintses, christen, citherns, cithrens, richness, snitcher, and snitches, 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 christens produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with richest. For points, the strongest plays are chinses, cithern, cithers, cithren, ethnics, inchers, richens, richest, sitches, and sthenic — 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 christens turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chests, crises, inches, itches, nicest, resist, and scents. For points, the strongest plays are cherts, chests, chines, chinse, chints, cither, enrich, ethics, ethnic, incher, inches, itches, niches, richen, riches, schist, snitch, stench, stichs, thrice, and trench — 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 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in christens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, chess, chest, chins, cries, hints, and hires. For points, the strongest plays are chert, chess, chest, chine, chins, chits, ethic, niche, retch, sitch, stich, techs, and tench — 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 christens produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, chin, hens, hers, hint, hire, and hits. For points, the strongest plays are chin, chis, chit, echt, etch, ichs, inch, itch, rich, 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 christens turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her, his, hit, ice, its, and net. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in christens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in christens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in christens and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
christens 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 christens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
christens is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing christens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are christens and snitchers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from christens 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 christens produce 362 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.