clarify needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CRAFLIY, CFYLAIR or CLAYRFI and you get the same 7 letters as CLARIFY: so the words from CLARIFY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
clarify is the highest-scoring word from clarify, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in clarify — and it is clarify itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clarify. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairy and lyric. For points, the strongest play is farcy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clarify produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calf, clay and fail. For points, the strongest plays are flay and fray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clarify turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, car and cry. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fly, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clarify. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay and if. For points, the strongest plays are ay, fa, if, and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in clarify plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clarify and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
clarify 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 1-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 clarify. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
clarify is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clarify unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clarify, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clarify 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 clarify produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.