clerihews 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, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clerihews is the highest-scoring word from clerihews, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in clerihews — and it is clerihews itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerihews. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clerihew and welchers, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clerihews produces 12 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 chewers, chewier, lechwes, rechews, welcher, and welches, 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 clerihews turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers, chiles, relies, wheels, and whiles. For points, the strongest plays are chewer, eschew, lechwe, rechew, and wiches — 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 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerihews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chews, chile, crews, cries, heels, and hires. For points, the strongest plays are chews and welch — each 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 clerihews produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chew, crew, else, heel, here, hers, and hire. 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 clerihews turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, ice, lie, see, sew, and she. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerihews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, he, hi, is, sh, and we. For points, the strongest plays are eh, ew, he, hi, sh, and we — each worth 5 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 clerihews 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.
clerihews 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 clerihews. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
clerihews is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clerihews unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clerihews, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clerihews 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 clerihews produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.