Unscramble CHILDLIKE and you have 115 words, CHILDLIKE itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. HICKIE is the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from CHILDLIKE split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 10 with 6, 18 with 5, 43 with 4, 30 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 8 letters.
CHIK, HECK and HICK are the top 4-letter words from CHILDLIKE, 13 points each. LIKE, CELL and HELD will look familiar.
KHI scores highest among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble CHILDLIKE at 10 points, ahead of ICK on 9 and CHE on 8. LED, DIE and ICE are the ones most people know.
These 3 words have the length of CHILDLIKE, with one letter different:
More 9-letter words: starting with CH · ending in KE · all 9-letter words
What CHILDLIKE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. CHILDLIKE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHILDLIKE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 115) | 89 | 115 | 85 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
26 of the 115 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CHIK, CLEIK, ICHED, ICKLE, DICH, ELCHI, KIDEL, KILD, CHE, CLIED, ECH, HEID and 14 more. 4 of the 115 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HICKIE, CEILIDH, CEILI and KI.