Hidden inside cellars sit callers, cellars, recalls and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
callers, cellars, recalls and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from cellars at 9 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in cellars: three come from rearranging its letters, and cellars itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with callers and recalls. For points, the strongest plays are callers, cellars, recalls, and scleral — 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 cellars turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caller, clears, and recall. For points, the strongest plays are caller, carles, cellar, clears, lacers, recall, scaler, and sclera — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cellars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calls, cares, cells, clear, laser, races, and scale. For points, the strongest plays are acres, alecs, calls, cares, carle, carls, carse, cella, cells, clear, escar, lacer, laces, races, scale, scall, scare, and serac — 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 cellars produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, care, cars, case, cell, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, alec, arcs, call, cals, care, carl, cars, case, cell, cels, lace, lacs, race, recs, and scar — 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 cellars turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, car, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, car, cel, lac, rec, sac, and sec — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cellars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, and re — 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 cellars 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.
cellars 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 three senses for cellars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
cellars is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cellars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are callers, cellars, recalls, and scleral, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cellars 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 cellars produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.