clerestory 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, 378 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clerestory is the highest-scoring word from clerestory, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 378 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in clerestory — and it is clerestory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clerestory produces exactly one nine-letter word: secretory. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerestory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with secretly. For points, the strongest plays are corsetry and secretly — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clerestory produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with restore. For points, the strongest plays are clyster, erectly, rectory, and sorcery — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clerestory turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer, closet and elects. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including celery, costly and coyest.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerestory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, cores and elect. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including cloys, corys and cosey.
Rearranging the letters in clerestory produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cost and else. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including cloy, coly and cory.
Unscrambling clerestory turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, eye and let. For points, the strongest plays are coy and cry — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerestory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy and so. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
clerestory 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 clerestory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
clerestory is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clerestory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clerestory, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clerestory 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 clerestory produce 378 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.