Hidden inside clearing sit clearing and relacing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clearing and relacing tie for the highest Scrabble score from clearing at 11 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in clearing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clearing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clearing. For points, the strongest plays are clearing and relacing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clearing produces 17 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anergic, angelic, anglice, carling, clanger, clinger, cringle, galenic, glacier, glancer, and gracile, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clearing turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, garlic, and racing. For points, the strongest plays are arcing, cagier, caring, cering, cringe, garlic, glance, incage, lacing, and racing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel, anger, angle, cigar, clean, and clear. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cager, cigar, clang, cling, genic, glace, and grace — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clearing produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, care, earn, gain, girl, lane, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are cage, clag, cleg, and crag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clearing turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, can, car, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 clearing and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
clearing 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 clearing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
clearing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clearing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clearing and relacing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clearing 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 clearing produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.