Hidden inside clearness sit cleansers and clearness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 341 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cleansers and clearness tie for the highest Scrabble score from clearness at 11 points. The top 10 of 341 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in clearness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clearness 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 cleansers and clearness, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleaners and cleanses. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including cleaners, cleanses and careless.
Rearranging the letters in clearness produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals, cleaner, cleanse, and screens. For points, 28 words tie at 9 points, including cereals, cleaner and cleanse.
Unscrambling clearness turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceases, cereal and cleans. For points, 41 words tie at 8 points, including ceases, cereal and cleans.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cases and cease. For points, 39 words tie at 7 points, including cares, cases and cease.
Rearranging the letters in clearness produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, care and cars. For points, 27 words tie at 6 points, including cans, care and cars.
Unscrambling clearness turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and can. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including can, car and ace.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and ae.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in clearness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clearness 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.
clearness 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 3-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 clearness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
clearness is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clearness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cleansers and clearness, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clearness 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 clearness produce 341 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.