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CHANCIEST

9 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What CHANCIEST Means

CHANCIEST is a form of CHANCY, which means:

  1. adjective: of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk“an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog”
  2. adjective: subject to accident or chance or change“a chancy appeal at best”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CHANCIEST is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 H4 A1 N1 C3 I1 E1 S1 T1.

Anagrams of CHANCIEST (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In CHANCIEST

493 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

8 letter words (6)

7 letter words (26)

6 letter words (76)

5 letter words (126)

4 letter words (147)

3 letter words (86)

2 letter words (26)

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