Unscramble ELCHI and you have 26 words, ELCHI itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 10 points: CHIEL and CHILE. Of the shorter words, LECH and LICH lead with 9 points. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from ELCHI by length: 3 with 5 letters, 7 with 4, 10 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Trade one tile of ELCHI for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with EL · ending in HI · all 5-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CHIEL and CHILE (10 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ELCHI is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELCHI itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 26) | 21 | 26 | 21 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 5 of them: ELCHI, CHE, ECH, CH and CIEL.
With one more tile, the letters of ELCHI spell the words below.