Hidden inside chymists sit chymists and tychisms, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chymists and tychisms tie for the highest Scrabble score from chymists at 18 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chymists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chymists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chymists and tychisms, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chymists produces 3 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 chymist and tychism, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chymists turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mythic and thymic, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chymists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with missy and myths. For points, the strongest plays are itchy, myths, and thymi — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chymists produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, hits and itch. For points, the strongest play is myth — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chymists turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his and hit. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chymists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm and is. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in chymists and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
chymists 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 chymists carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
chymists is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chymists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chymists and tychisms, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chymists 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 chymists produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.