Hidden inside clawed sit clawed and declaw, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CLEADW, LCDAEW or ACEDWL and you get the same 6 letters as CLAWED: so the words from CLAWED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
clawed and declaw tie for the highest Scrabble score from clawed at 12 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in clawed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clawed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clawed and declaw, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clawed. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cawed, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clawed produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claw, deal, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are claw and clew — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clawed turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lad, law, and led. For points, the strongest play is caw — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clawed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in clawed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clawed and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
clawed 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 clawed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
clawed is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clawed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clawed and declaw, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clawed 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 clawed produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.