Hidden inside scholar sit chorals and scholar, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chorals and scholar tie for the highest Scrabble score from scholar at 12 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in scholar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scholar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chorals and scholar, 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 scholar turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cholas, choral, and schorl, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scholar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chaos, colas, crash, and solar. For points, the strongest plays are chaos, chars, chola, clash, crash, larch, loach, lochs, orach, and roach — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scholar produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, cars, cash, cola, oral, rash, and scar. For points, the strongest plays are arch, cash, chao, char, cosh, and loch — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scholar turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, car, and has. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scholar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, ha, ho, oh, or, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in scholar and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
scholar 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for scholar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
scholar is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scholar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chorals and scholar, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scholar 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 scholar produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.