Hidden inside chits sit chits, sitch, and stich, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chits, sitch, and stich tie for the highest Scrabble score from chits at 10 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in chits: two come from rearranging its letters, and chits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chits, sitch, and stich, 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 chits produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, itch, and this. For points, the strongest plays are chis, chit, ichs, and itch — 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 chits turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, its, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are hi 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 chits and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
chits 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 chits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for chits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
chits is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chits, sitch, and stich, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chits 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 chits produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.