Hidden inside claps sit claps, clasp, and scalp, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble APSLC, ACPSL or PLACS and you get the same 5 letters as CLAPS: so the words from CLAPS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
claps, clasp, and scalp tie for the highest Scrabble score from claps at 9 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in claps: two come from rearranging its letters, and claps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claps. For points, the strongest plays are claps, clasp, and scalp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in claps produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caps, clap and laps. For points, the strongest plays are caps, clap, and pacs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling claps turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cap, lap, and pal. For points, the strongest plays are cap and pac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in claps and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
claps 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 ten senses for claps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
claps is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing claps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are claps, clasp, and scalp, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from claps 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 claps produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.