Hidden inside cliche sit chicle and cliche, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chicle and cliche tie for the highest Scrabble score from cliche at 13 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in cliche: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cliche itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chicle and cliche, 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cliche. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chile. For points, the strongest plays are chiel and chile — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cliche produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lice. For points, the strongest play is chic — 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 cliche turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice and lie. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cliche. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, he, and hi, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cliche 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.
cliche 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 2-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 cliche. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cliche is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cliche unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chicle and cliche, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cliche 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 cliche produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.