Hidden inside cleer is one standout: creel, a five-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CLEER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CREEL (verb), to put fish in a basket, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
creel is the highest-scoring word from cleer, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling cleer produces exactly one five-letter word: creel. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cleer turns up 7 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cee, cel, and rec, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cleer. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, er, and re, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in cleer and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is creel, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cleer 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 cleer produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.