Hidden inside chromatids sit chromatids and dichromats, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 773 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chromatids and dichromats tie for the highest Scrabble score from chromatids at 18 points. The top 10 of 773 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in chromatids: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chromatids itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chromatids and dichromats, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chromatids turns up 4 nine-letter words. 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.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromatids. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chartism, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chromatids produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stomach. For points, the strongest plays are dharmic and drachms — each 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 chromatids turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, admits, chairs, charms, charts, choirs, and hoards. For points, the strongest play 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 207 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromatids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, actor, admit, atoms, cards, carts, and chair. For points, the strongest plays are chams, charm, chasm, chirm, macho, machs, march, match, mocha, mochi, ohmic, and schmo — 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 chromatids produces 248 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, aims, airs, arms, and arts. 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 chromatids turns up 129 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, aim, air, arm, and art. 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 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromatids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, am, as, at, do, and ha. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in chromatids plus one additional letter.
chromatids 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 chromatids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
chromatids is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chromatids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chromatids and dichromats, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chromatids 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 chromatids produce 773 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 207 five-letter words, 248 four-letter words, 129 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.