Hidden inside chemical sit alchemic and chemical, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alchemic and chemical tie for the highest Scrabble score from chemical at 17 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in chemical: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chemical itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chemical. For points, the strongest plays are alchemic and chemical — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chemical 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 word is macchie, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chemical turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chemic, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chemical. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camel, chile, claim, and email. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including cache, chica and chime.
Rearranging the letters in chemical produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, calm and came. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including cham, chem and chic.
Unscrambling chemical turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ham and him. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and chi.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chemical. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and eh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in chemical plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chemical 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.
chemical 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 3-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 chemical. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
chemical is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chemical unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alchemic and chemical, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chemical 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 chemical produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.