Hidden inside calques sit calques and claques, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calques and claques tie for the highest Scrabble score from calques at 18 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in calques: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calques itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calques and claques, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling calques turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with equals. For points, the strongest plays are calque, casque, claque, and sacque — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calques. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cause, clues and equal. For points, the strongest plays are equal and quale — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in calques produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case, clue and cues. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including case, clue and cues.
Unscrambling calques turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are qua and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in calques plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in calques and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
calques 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for calques. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
calques is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calques unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calques and claques, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calques 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 calques produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.