Hidden inside cloister sit cloister, coistrel, and costlier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 344 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cloister, coistrel, and costlier tie for the highest Scrabble score from cloister at 10 points. The top 10 of 344 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in cloister: two come from rearranging its letters, and cloister itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cloister, coistrel, and costlier, 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 cloister produces 13 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 citoles, coilers, colters, corslet, costrel, erotics, lectors, lictors, recoils, and relicts, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cloister turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer, closet, erotic, and sector. For points, the strongest plays are ceorls, cestoi, citers, citole, closer, closet, coiler, colies, colter, corset, cosier, coster, cresol, erotic, escort, lector, lictor, locies, recits, recoil, rectos, relics, relict, scoter, sector, slicer, stelic, steric, telcos, torics, and trices — 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cloister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, cores, cries, loser, rices, riots, and roles. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, celts, ceorl, ceros, certs, cesti, cires, citer, cites, clits, close, clots, coils, coirs, coles, colts, cores, corse, coset, cosie, cotes, crest, cries, crits, escot, etics, locie, locis, lotic, oleic, recit, recti, recto, relic, rices, score, slice, socle, stoic, telco, telic, torcs, toric, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cloister produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cost, ices, lets, lice, lies, and list. For points, the strongest plays are ceil, cels, celt, cero, cert, cire, cist, cite, clit, clot, coil, coir, cole, cols, colt, core, cors, cost, cote, cots, cris, crit, ecos, etic, ices, lice, loci, locs, orcs, otic, recs, rice, rocs, scot, sect, sice, tecs, tics, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cloister turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, let, lie, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are cel, cis, col, cor, cos, cot, eco, ice, loc, orc, rec, roc, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cloister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, et, is, it, li, lo, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 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 cloister 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.
cloister 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 five senses for cloister. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
cloister is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cloister unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cloister, coistrel, and costlier, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cloister 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 cloister produce 344 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.