21 words come out when you unscramble CHIEF, starting with CHIEF itself: 13 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 13 points: FICHE. Of the shorter words, CHEF leads with 12 points. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
FCHIE unscrambles to CHIEF: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for feich, hefic, ficeh, heifc, fiech, chfei, hecif, iefch or ceihf? They use the same letters as CHIEF, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from CHIEF by length: 2 with 5 letters, 2 with 4, 9 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of CHIEF but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with CH · ending in F · all 5-letter words
CHIEF first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CHIEF, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIEF itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 21) | 17 | 20 | 16 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CHE, ECH and CH, 3 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: FE. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
Each word below uses all the letters of CHIEF and one more.