Hidden inside chromatid sit chromatid and dichromat, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 306 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chromatid and dichromat tie for the highest Scrabble score from chromatid at 17 points. The top 10 of 306 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in chromatid: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chromatid 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 chromatid and dichromat, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chromatid produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dharmic, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chromatid turns up 23 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is drachm, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromatid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, admit, chair, charm, chart, choir, and ditch. For points, the strongest plays are charm, chirm, macho, march, match, mocha, mochi, and ohmic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chromatid produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, atom, card, cart, chat, coat, and coma. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chromatid turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, aim, air, arm, art, and car. For points, the strongest plays are chi, ham, hic, him, hom, ich, mho, och, and ohm — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromatid. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, am, at, do, ha, and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in chromatid plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chromatid 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.
chromatid 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 chromatid. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
chromatid is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chromatid unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chromatid and dichromat, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chromatid 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 chromatid produce 306 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.