clearstory needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 758 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clearstory is the highest-scoring word from clearstory, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 758 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in clearstory — and it is clearstory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearstory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creators. For points, the strongest plays are acolytes, caloyers, coarsely, and corsetry — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clearstory produces 57 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carrots, coaster and creator. For points, 12 words tie at 12 points, including crystal, acetyls and acolyte.
Unscrambling clearstory turns up 141 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, alerts and alters. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including acetyl, calory and costly.
There are 206 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearstory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert and alter. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including carry, scary and acyls.
Rearranging the letters in clearstory produces 213 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also and arts. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including clay, acyl and lacy.
Unscrambling clearstory turns up 103 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, and cry — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clearstory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and ay. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ay, oy and yo.
clearstory 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for clearstory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
clearstory is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clearstory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clearstory, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clearstory 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 clearstory produce 758 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 13 eight-letter words, 57 seven-letter words, 141 six-letter words, 206 five-letter words, 213 four-letter words, 103 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.