Hidden inside clearest sit clearest and treacles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 354 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clearest and treacles tie for the highest Scrabble score from clearest at 10 points. The top 10 of 354 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in clearest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clearest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clearest. For points, the strongest plays are clearest and treacles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clearest produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals, creates, and relates. For points, the strongest plays are cartels, celesta, cerates, cereals, clarets, creates, crestal, ecartes, relaces, rescale, scarlet, sclerae, tercels, and treacle — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clearest turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, castle, caters, cereal, clears, and create. For points, the strongest plays are carets, carles, cartel, cartes, caster, castle, caters, cerate, cereal, certes, claret, clears, cleats, crates, crease, create, creels, ecarte, eclats, elects, erects, lacers, reacts, recast, rectal, relace, resect, scaler, sclera, secret, select, tercel, terces, and traces — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, cares, carts, cater, cease, and clear. For points, the strongest plays are acres, alecs, cares, caret, carle, carls, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cease, celts, ceres, certs, cesta, cetes, clast, clear, cleat, crate, creel, crest, eclat, elect, erect, escar, lacer, laces, races, react, recta, scale, scare, scart, scree, serac, taces, talcs, terce, and trace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clearest produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, care, cars, cart, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acts, alec, arcs, cals, care, carl, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cels, celt, cere, cert, cete, lace, lacs, race, recs, scar, scat, sect, tace, talc, and tecs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clearest turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, cal, car, cat, cee, cel, lac, rec, sac, sec, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, la, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in clearest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
clearest is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
clearest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clearest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clearest and treacles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clearest earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in clearest produce 354 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.