clauses needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clauses is the highest-scoring word from clauses, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in clauses — and it is clauses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clauses turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with causes, sauces, and scales. For points, the strongest plays are caules, causes, clause, sauces, and scales — each 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clauses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cases, cause, class, clues, sales, sauce, and scale. For points, the strongest plays are alecs, ascus, cases, casus, cauls, cause, class, clues, laces, luces, sauce, and scale — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clauses produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case, clue, cues, less, sale, seal, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are aces, alec, cals, case, caul, cels, cess, clue, cues, cuss, ecus, lace, lacs, luce, sacs, and secs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clauses turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, cue, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ace, cal, cel, cue, ecu, lac, sac, and sec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clauses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, el, es, la, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in clauses 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.
clauses 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 two senses for clauses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
clauses is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clauses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clauses, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clauses 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 clauses produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.