Hidden inside trochlea sit chelator, chlorate, and trochlea, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 308 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chelator, chlorate, and trochlea tie for the highest Scrabble score from trochlea at 13 points. The top 10 of 308 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in trochlea: two come from rearranging its letters, and trochlea 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 chelator, chlorate, and trochlea, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in trochlea produces 11 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 cholate, cholera, chorale and 4 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling trochlea turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locate. For points, 15 words tie at 11 points, including chalet, chalot and choler.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trochlea. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert and alter. For points, 26 words tie at 10 points, including chart, cheat and chore.
Rearranging the letters in trochlea produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and chat. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including chat, each and ache.
Unscrambling trochlea turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trochlea. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and eh. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in trochlea plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in trochlea 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.
trochlea 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.
trochlea is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trochlea unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chelator, chlorate, and trochlea, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trochlea 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 trochlea produce 308 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.