Hidden inside calentures sit calentures and unclearest, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 924 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calentures and unclearest tie for the highest Scrabble score from calentures at 12 points. The top 10 of 924 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in calentures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calentures itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calentures and unclearest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling calentures turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calenture, ceruleans, crenulate and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calentures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleaners, cleanest and clearest. For points, 27 words tie at 10 points, including cleaners, cleanest and clearest.
Rearranging the letters in calentures produces 112 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, central and cereals. For points, 74 words tie at 9 points, including centers, central and cereals.
Unscrambling calentures turns up 211 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and castle. For points, 112 words tie at 8 points, including castle, caters and center.
There are 247 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calentures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rules, saner and sauce. For points, 96 words tie at 7 points, including sauce, scale and scare.
Rearranging the letters in calentures produces 200 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and anus. For points, 55 words tie at 6 points, including acts, race and scar.
Unscrambling calentures turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and are. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calentures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, 21 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in calentures plus one additional letter.
calentures 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
calentures is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calentures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calentures and unclearest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calentures 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 calentures produce 924 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 32 eight-letter words, 112 seven-letter words, 211 six-letter words, 247 five-letter words, 200 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.