Hidden inside clande sit candle and lanced, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CLANDE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CANDLE and LANCED.
candle and lanced tie for the highest Scrabble score from clande at 9 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling clande turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candle. For points, the strongest plays are candle and lanced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clande. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean and dance. For points, the strongest plays are acned, caned, clade, dance, decal, decan, and laced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clande produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, land, lane, lead, lean, and lend. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, clad, and dace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clande turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, can, end, lad, and led. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clande. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
16 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in clande plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clande and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are candle and lanced, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clande 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 clande produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.