Hidden inside clearings sit clearings and rescaling, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 640 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clearings and rescaling tie for the highest Scrabble score from clearings at 12 points. The top 10 of 640 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in clearings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clearings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clearings and rescaling, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clearing. For points, the strongest plays are carlings, clangers, clearing, clingers, creasing, cringles, glaciers, glancers, graciles, 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 clearings produces 58 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceasing, erasing, garlics, scaring, and sealing. For points, the strongest plays are anergic, angelic, anglice, arcings, carings, carling, ceasing, clanger, clinger, cringes, cringle, galenic, garlics, glacier, glancer, glances, gracile, incages, lacings, racings, sacring, scaling, and scaring — 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 clearings turns up 116 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angers, angles, caring, cigars, and cleans. For points, the strongest plays are arcing, cagers, cagier, caring, casing, cering, cigars, clangs, clings, cringe, garlic, glaces, glacis, glance, graces, 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 180 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, angel, anger, angle, cages, and cares. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cager, cages, cigar, clags, clang, clegs, cling, crags, genic, glace, grace, and scrag — 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 clearings produces 162 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, lane, lean, legs, liar, and lice. For points, the strongest plays are scag, cage, cigs, 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 clearings turns up 83 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in clearings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clearings 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.
clearings 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 clearings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
clearings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clearings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clearings and rescaling, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clearings 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 clearings produce 640 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 58 seven-letter words, 116 six-letter words, 180 five-letter words, 162 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.