clergymen 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, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clergymen is the highest-scoring word from clergymen, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in clergymen — and it is clergymen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clergymen produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is regency, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clergymen turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with energy and merely. For points, the strongest plays are cymene and mycele — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clergymen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enemy, green, mercy, and merge. For points, the strongest play is mercy — 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 clergymen produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, germ, grey, and rely. For points, the strongest play is cyme — 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 clergymen turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, eye, gee, gym, leg, and men. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clergymen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in clergymen 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.
clergymen 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 4-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 clergymen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
clergymen is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clergymen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clergymen, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clergymen 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 clergymen produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.