Hidden inside chrysolite sit chrysolite and chrysotile, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 755 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chrysolite and chrysotile tie for the highest Scrabble score from chrysolite at 18 points. The top 10 of 755 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in chrysolite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chrysolite 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 chrysolite and chrysotile, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chrysolite 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 word is rhyolites, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrysolite. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chestily, hysteric, and lecythis, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chrysolite produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clothes, history and holiest. For points, the strongest plays are christy, ethylic, lecythi, and techily — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chrysolite turns up 146 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chiles, choirs and chores. For points, 9 words tie at 14 points, including cherty, chesty and chyles.
There are 210 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrysolite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, chile and choir. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including chyle, itchy and ochry.
Rearranging the letters in chrysolite produces 200 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, core and cost. For points, the strongest plays are lych and yech — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chrysolite turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, her and hey. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hey, shy and thy.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrysolite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in chrysolite plus one additional letter.
chrysolite 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 chrysolite carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for chrysolite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
chrysolite is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chrysolite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chrysolite and chrysotile, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chrysolite 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 chrysolite produce 755 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 146 six-letter words, 210 five-letter words, 200 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.