Hidden inside clematises sit clematises and timescales, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 595 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clematises and timescales tie for the highest Scrabble score from clematises at 14 points. The top 10 of 595 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in clematises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clematises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clematises and timescales, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clematises turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is timescale, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clematises. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are casteism, clematis, climates, and meticals, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clematises produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castles, easiest, and selects. For points, 13 words tie at 11 points, including calmest, camises and camlets.
Unscrambling clematises turns up 88 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, camels and castle. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including camels, claims and amices.
There are 166 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clematises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sails, sales and salts. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including scams, calms and camel.
Rearranging the letters in clematises produces 175 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims and lame. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including mice, scam and calm.
Unscrambling clematises turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and ass. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clematises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in clematises plus one additional letter.
clematises 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.
clematises is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clematises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clematises and timescales, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clematises 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 clematises produce 595 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 88 six-letter words, 166 five-letter words, 175 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.