clerihew needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clerihew is the highest-scoring word from clerihew, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in clerihew — and it is clerihew itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clerihew 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 words are chewier and welcher, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clerihew turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chewer, lechwe, and rechew, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerihew. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chile, wheel, where, and while. For points, the strongest play is welch — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clerihew produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chew, crew, heel, here, hire, lice, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are chew and wich — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clerihew turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, ice, and lie. For points, the strongest play is hew — worth 9 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 clerihew. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, ew, he, hi, and we, worth 5 points apiece 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 clerihew plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clerihew 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.
clerihew 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 clerihew. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
clerihew is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clerihew unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clerihew, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clerihew 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 clerihew produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.