clarifies needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 340 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clarifies is the highest-scoring word from clarifies, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 340 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in clarifies — and it is clarifies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clarifies produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairies. For points, the strongest plays are farcies, fecials, and fiacres — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clarifies turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clears, falser, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are califs, facers, facies, facile, falces, farces, farcie, fecial, felsic, fiacre, and fiscal — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clarifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, cafes, cares, clear, cries, faces, and fails. For points, the strongest plays are cafes, calfs, calif, clefs, facer, faces, farce, farci, fecal, fices, flics, and scarf — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clarifies produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, cafe, calf, care, cars, case, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, cafs, calf, clef, face, fice, fisc, and flic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clarifies turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, car, ear, elf, era, and far. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clarifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in clarifies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clarifies 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.
clarifies 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for clarifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
clarifies is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clarifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clarifies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clarifies 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 clarifies produce 340 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.