clergies needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clergies is the highest-scoring word from clergies, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in clergies — and it is clergies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clergies produces exactly one seven-letter word: ceilers. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clergies turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relies. For points, the strongest plays are ceiler, cerise, creels, relics, and slicer — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clergies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, girls, rices, and slice. For points, the strongest play is clegs — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clergies produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, girl, ices, legs, lice, lies, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cleg — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clergies turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, ice, leg, lie, rig, see, and sir. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clergies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in clergies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clergies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
clergies 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for clergies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
clergies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clergies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clergies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clergies 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 clergies produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 12 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.