Hidden inside chrysotile 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 chrysotile 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 chrysotile: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chrysotile 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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chrysotile 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrysotile. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chrysotile produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clothes, history, holiest, hostile, richest, shortly, and society. For points, the strongest plays are christy, ethylic, lecythi, and techily — 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 chrysotile turns up 146 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chiles, choirs, chores, closer, closet, erotic, and holier. For points, the strongest plays are cherty, chesty, chyles, coyish, lyches, ochery, richly, scythe, and torchy — 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 210 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrysotile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, chile, choir, chore, chose, close, and cores. For points, the strongest plays are chyle, itchy, ochry, techy, and yechs — 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 chrysotile produces 200 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, core, cost, hero, hers, hire, and hits. For points, the strongest plays are lych and yech — 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 chrysotile turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, her, hey, his, hit, hot, and ice. For points, the strongest plays are hey, hoy, shy, thy, and yeh — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chrysotile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, it, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, ho, oh, oy, sh, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in chrysotile plus one additional letter.
chrysotile 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 chrysotile carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for chrysotile. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
chrysotile is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chrysotile 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 chrysotile 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 chrysotile 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.