82 words come out when you unscramble CHINOIS, starting with CHINOIS itself: 12 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, CHINOS and NICISH lead with 11 points. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. CHINOIS as a single 7-tile play makes 62 in Scrabble, 12 plus the 50 bonus, and 48 in Words With Friends (13 + 35).
Looking for coinshi, choisin, shincio, chiniso, cishion, coinish, schinio or sonichi? They use the same letters as CHINOIS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from CHINOIS split into 1 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 10 with 5, 23 with 4, 30 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Trade one tile of CHINOIS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with CH · ending in IS · all 7-letter words
What CHINOIS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CHINOIS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHINOIS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 82) | 67 | 82 | 58 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 15 of them: NICISH, SICH, HIOIS, HOC, CH, HIOI, HOIS, NISH, HOI, ISH, IOS, ISO and 3 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: CHINOIS, CHONS, HOISIN, OCH, HOS, SHO, SOH, SOC and OI.
With one more tile, the letters of CHINOIS spell the words below.