clearance needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clearance is the highest-scoring word from clearance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in clearance — and it is clearance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canceler and clarence, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clearance produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleaner. For points, the strongest play is cenacle — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clearance turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancel, cancer, and cereal. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including cancel, cancer and caecal.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, clear, and learn. For points, the strongest plays are caeca, cecal, and recce — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clearance produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, care and earn. For points, the strongest plays are caca and ceca — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clearance turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, can and car. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including can, car and ace.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in clearance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clearance and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
clearance 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for clearance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
clearance is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clearance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clearance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clearance 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 clearance produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.