Hidden inside clerko sit locker and relock, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CLERKO isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LOCKER and RELOCK.
locker and relock tie for the highest Scrabble score from clerko at 12 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling clerko turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locker. For points, the strongest plays are locker and relock — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerko. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clerk and ocker, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clerko produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke, core and lock. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including coke, lock and rock.
Unscrambling clerko turns up 16 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elk, kor, lek, and oke, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in clerko plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clerko and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are locker and relock, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clerko 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 clerko produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.