chrysalis needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 218 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chrysalis is the highest-scoring word from chrysalis, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 218 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in chrysalis — and it is chrysalis itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chrysalis produces 7 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 charily and clayish, 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 chrysalis turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chairs, classy, and lyrics. For points, the strongest plays are archly and richly — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrysalis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chair, class, crash, hails, hairs, hairy, and liars. For points, the strongest plays are chary and chays — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chrysalis produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, cars, cash, clay, hail, hair, and hays. For points, the strongest plays are achy, chay, and lych — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chrysalis turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ash, ass, car, cry, has, and hay. For points, the strongest plays are hay, shy, and yah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrysalis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, ay, ha, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ay, ha, hi, sh, and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in chrysalis plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chrysalis 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.
chrysalis 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in chrysalis carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for chrysalis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
chrysalis is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chrysalis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chrysalis, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chrysalis 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 chrysalis produce 218 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.