Hidden inside claus is one standout: cauls, a five-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CLAUS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CAULS (noun, plural of caul), a fetal membrane, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
cauls is the highest-scoring word from claus, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling claus produces exactly one five-letter word: cauls. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in claus produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cals, caul, and lacs, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling claus turns up 7 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cal, lac, and sac, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in claus 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cauls, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from claus 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 claus produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.