Hidden inside claimants sit calamints and claimants, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 338 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calamints and claimants tie for the highest Scrabble score from claimants at 13 points. The top 10 of 338 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in claimants: one comes from rearranging its letters, and claimants 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 calamints and claimants, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in claimants. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calamint and claimant, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in claimants produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animals and maniacs. For points, the strongest plays are caimans, camails, clamant, lactams, and maniacs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling claimants turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal, claims, and maniac. For points, the strongest plays are caiman, calami, camail, camisa, claims, lactam, maniac, manics, mantic, mastic, and misact — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in claimants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calms, claim, mails, mints, nails, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are amnic, calms, camas, camis, claim, clams, malic, manic, and micas — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in claimants produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims, ants, calm, cans, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are calm, cami, cams, clam, macs, mica, mics, and scam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling claimants turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, ant, can, cat, its, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in claimants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in claimants plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in claimants 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.
claimants 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for claimants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
claimants is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing claimants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calamints and claimants, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from claimants 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 claimants produce 338 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.