clepsydra needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 534 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clepsydra is the highest-scoring word from clepsydra, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 534 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in clepsydra — and it is clepsydra itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clepsydra produces exactly one eight-letter word: sacredly. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clepsydra produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with players, scraped, and sprayed. For points, the strongest plays are cypsela and prelacy — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clepsydra turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clears, delays, layers, placed, places, played, and player. For points, the strongest plays are cypres and spacey — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 166 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clepsydra. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cards, cared, cares, claps, clear, and craps. For points, the strongest plays are crepy, pacey, and spacy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clepsydra produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, lads, lady, laps, lays, lead, and leap. For points, the strongest play is pacy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clepsydra turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, aye, cap, car, and cry. For points, the strongest plays are cay, cry, pay, ply, pry, pya, pye, spy, yap, and yep — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clepsydra. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in clepsydra plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clepsydra 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.
clepsydra 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 2-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 clepsydra. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
clepsydra is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clepsydra unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clepsydra, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clepsydra 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 clepsydra produce 534 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 24 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 166 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.