Hidden inside cannelure sit cannelure and uncleaner, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cannelure and uncleaner tie for the highest Scrabble score from cannelure at 11 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cannelure: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cannelure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cannelure and uncleaner, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cannelure produces exactly one eight-letter word: cerulean. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cannelure produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleaner and nuclear. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including cleaner, nuclear and lucarne.
Unscrambling cannelure turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereal. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including cereal, cannel and canner.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cannelure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, clear and cruel. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including clean, clear and cruel.
Rearranging the letters in cannelure produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, clue and cure. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including care, clue and cure.
Unscrambling cannelure turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, can and car. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including can, car and cue.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in cannelure plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cannelure and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
cannelure is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
cannelure is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cannelure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cannelure and uncleaner, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cannelure 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 cannelure produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.