Hidden inside cloisters sit cloisters and coistrels, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 466 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cloisters and coistrels tie for the highest Scrabble score from cloisters at 11 points. The top 10 of 466 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cloisters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cloisters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cloisters and coistrels, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cloisters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cloister, coistrel, corslets, costlier, costrels, crosslet, crosstie, solecist, and solstice, 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 cloisters produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closest, closets, sectors, and stories. For points, the strongest plays are citoles, closers, closest, closets, coilers, colters, corsets, corslet, cosiest, costers, costrel, cresols, erotics, escorts, lectors, lictors, loessic, ossicle, recoils, relicts, scoters, sectors, and slicers — 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 cloisters turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer, closes, closet, crises, erotic, losers, and resist. For points, the strongest plays are ceorls, cestoi, cestos, citers, citole, closer, closes, closet, coiler, colies, colter, corses, corset, cosets, cosier, cosies, cosset, coster, cresol, crests, crises, crosse, erotic, escort, escots, lector, lictor, locies, recits, recoil, rectos, relics, relict, scores, scoter, scries, sector, slicer, slices, socles, stelic, steric, stoics, 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 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cloisters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, cores, costs, cries, cross, lists, and loser. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, celts, ceorl, ceros, certs, cesti, cires, cists, citer, cites, clits, close, clots, coils, coirs, coles, colts, cores, corse, coses, coset, cosie, costs, cotes, cress, crest, cries, crits, cross, escot, etics, locie, locis, lotic, oleic, recit, recti, recto, relic, rices, score, scots, sects, sices, slice, soces, 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 cloisters produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lice, lies, list, lose, and loss. For points, the strongest plays are lice, loci, locs, orcs, otic, recs, rice, rocs, scot, secs, sect, sice, sics, ceil, cels, celt, cero, cert, cess, cire, cist, cite, clit, clot, coil, coir, cole, cols, colt, core, cors, coss, cost, cote, cots, cris, crit, ecos, etic, ices, 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 cloisters turns up 60 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 cloisters. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cloisters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cloisters 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.
cloisters 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 cloisters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cloisters is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cloisters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cloisters and coistrels, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cloisters 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 cloisters produce 466 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.