Hidden inside closets 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 closets 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 closets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and closets 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 closets 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 closets. 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 closets 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 closets 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 closets. 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 closets 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.
closets 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 closets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
closets is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing closets 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 closets 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 closets 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.