chromosome needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chromosome is the highest-scoring word from chromosome, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in chromosome — and it is chromosome itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chromosome produces exactly one nine-letter word: homerooms. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromosome. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are homeroom, moochers, and smoocher, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chromosome produces 6 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 chromes, chromos, moocher, and mooches, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chromosome turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose and chores. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including chemos, chrome and chromo.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromosome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chore, chose and comes. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including chemo, chems and mechs.
Rearranging the letters in chromosome produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, core and hero. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chromosome turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hmm and mom. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chromosome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in chromosome plus one additional letter.
chromosome 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 2-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 chromosome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
chromosome is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chromosome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chromosome, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chromosome 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 chromosome produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.