Hidden inside closest sit closest and closets, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
closest and closets tie for the highest Scrabble score from closest at 9 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in closest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and closest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: closest and closets, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling closest turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes and closet. For points, the strongest plays are cestos, closes, closet, cosets, cosset, escots, socles, and telcos — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in closest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, costs, loses, slots, and stole. For points, the strongest plays are celts, close, clots, coles, colts, coses, coset, costs, cotes, escot, scots, sects, soces, socle, and telco — 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 closest produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, less, lets, lose, loss, lost, and lots. For points, the strongest plays are cels, celt, cess, clot, cole, cols, colt, coss, cost, cote, cots, ecos, locs, scot, secs, sect, and tecs — 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 closest turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are cel, col, cos, cot, eco, loc, sec, soc, and tec — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in closest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, lo, oe, os, so, te, 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 closest and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
closest 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 closest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
closest is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing closest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are closest and closets, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from closest 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 closest produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.