clearances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 326 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clearances is the highest-scoring word from clearances, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 326 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in clearances — and it is clearances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clearances turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cancelers, clarences, and clearance, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleaners. For points, the strongest plays are canceler, cenacles, and clarence — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clearances produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancels, cancers, cereals, cleaner, and cleanse. For points, the strongest plays are calcars, cancels, cancers, carcase, carcels, and cenacle — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clearances turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancel, cancer, cereal, cleans, clears, learns, and screen. For points, the strongest plays are caecal, calcar, calces, cancel, cancer, carcel, cercal, recces, and scarce — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares, cease, clean, clear, earns, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are cacas, caeca, cecal, and recce — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clearances produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, cans, care, cars, case, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are caca and ceca — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clearances turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, can, car, ear, era, ran, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, can, car, cee, cel, lac, rec, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, al, an, ar, as, el, en, er, es, la, na, ne, and re — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in clearances plus one additional letter.
clearances 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 clearances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
clearances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clearances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clearances, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clearances 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 clearances produce 326 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.