Hidden inside clangers sit clangers and glancers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clangers and glancers tie for the highest Scrabble score from clangers at 11 points. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in clangers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clangers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clangers and glancers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clangers produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clanger, glancer, and glances, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clangers turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angels, angers and angles. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including graces, cagers and clangs.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clangers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angel, anger and angle. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including cages, grace and cager.
Rearranging the letters in clangers produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, cage and cans. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cage, clag and cleg.
Unscrambling clangers turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and can. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including can, car and ace.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clangers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in clangers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clangers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
clangers 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 clangers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
clangers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clangers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clangers and glancers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clangers 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 clangers produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.