clavate needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clavate is the highest-scoring word from clavate, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in clavate — and it is clavate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clavate turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caveat and vacate, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clavate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calve and clave, 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 clavate produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, late, lava, tale, and veal. For points, the strongest plays are cava and cave — 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 clavate turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, let, tea, and vet. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clavate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta, and te — 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 clavate 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.
clavate 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.
clavate is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clavate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clavate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clavate 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 clavate produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.