Hidden inside closet sit closet and telcos, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
closet and telcos tie for the highest Scrabble score from closet at 8 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in closet: one comes from rearranging its letters, and closet itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closet. For points, the strongest plays are closet 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in closet. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close and stole. For points, the strongest plays are celts, close, clots, coles, colts, coset, cotes, escot, 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 closet produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, lets, lose, lost, lots, slot, and toes. For points, the strongest plays are cels, celt, clot, cole, cols, colt, cost, cote, cots, ecos, locs, scot, 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 closet turns up 23 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 closet. 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 closet 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.
closet 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 closet. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
closet is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing closet unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are closet and telcos, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from closet 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 closet produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.