Hidden inside chromites sit chromiest, chromites, and trichomes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 557 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chromiest, chromites, and trichomes tie for the highest Scrabble score from chromites at 16 points. The top 10 of 557 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in chromites: two come from rearranging its letters, and chromites 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 chromiest, chromites, and trichomes, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromites. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chromite and trichome, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chromites produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister, mothers, and richest. For points, 8 words tie at 14 points, including chemist, chimers and chrisom.
Unscrambling chromites turns up 89 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choirs, chores and crimes. For points, 11 words tie at 13 points, including chemos, chimer and chimes.
There are 154 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, choir and chore. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including chemo, chems and chime.
Rearranging the letters in chromites produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meth, mice and more. For points, the strongest plays are mech and chem — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chromites turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, him and his. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including him, chi and hem.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in chromites 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.
chromites 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 chromites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
chromites is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chromites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chromiest, chromites, and trichomes, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chromites 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 chromites produce 557 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 89 six-letter words, 154 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.