134 words come out when you unscramble UNCHAINS, starting with UNCHAINS itself: 13 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of UNCHAINS is on the page: ANCHUSIN, each 13 points. UNCHAIN is the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from UNCHAINS split into 2 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 6 with 6, 21 with 5, 47 with 4, 41 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in UNCHAINS: UNCHAIN, for 12 points.
13 of 47 4-letter words made with UNCHAINS letters tie at 9 points; none scores more. SUCH, CASH and INCH will look familiar.
Keep every letter of UNCHAINS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with UN · ending in NS · all 8-letter words
What UNCHAINS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept UNCHAINS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNCHAINS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 134) | 98 | 134 | 89 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
36 of the 134 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NAUCH, CHAS, CUSH, HINAUS, NACH, SICH, ACH, CHA, HAINS, HAUNS, HINAU, HUIAS and 24 more. 9 of the 134 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CHAIS, CHAI, AHIS, UNICA, AHI, AHS, UNIS, SAN and UNI.
With one more tile, the letters of UNCHAINS spell the words below.