Hidden inside claque sit calque and claque, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calque and claque tie for the highest Scrabble score from claque at 17 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in claque: one comes from rearranging its letters, and claque itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calque and claque, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in claque. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, al, el, and la, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in claque plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in claque 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.
claque 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 one sense for claque. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
claque is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing claque unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calque and claque, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from claque 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 claque produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.