chromate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 288 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chromate is the highest-scoring word from chromate, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 288 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in chromate — and it is chromate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chromate produces 3 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 matcher and rematch, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chromate turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mother. For points, the strongest plays are chroma, chrome, cometh, and macher — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cater and charm. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including charm, march and match.
Rearranging the letters in chromate produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, atom and came. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chromate turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and arm. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including ham, hem and hom.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and at. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in chromate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chromate 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.
chromate 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 chromate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chromate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chromate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chromate, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chromate 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 chromate produce 288 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.