Hidden inside closure sit closure and colures, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
closure and colures tie for the highest Scrabble score from closure at 9 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in closure: one comes from rearranging its letters, and closure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closure. For points, the strongest plays are closure and colures — 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 closure turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer, course, and source. For points, the strongest plays are ceorls, cerous, closer, clours, coleus, colure, course, cresol, crouse, lucres, oscule, source, and ulcers — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in closure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, clues, cores, cruel, cures, curls, and curse. For points, the strongest plays are ceorl, ceros, close, clour, clues, coles, cores, corse, cruel, cruse, cures, curls, curse, ecrus, locus, luces, lucre, score, scour, socle, sucre, and ulcer — 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 closure produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, core, cues, cure, curl, lose, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are cels, cero, clue, cole, cols, core, cors, crus, cues, cure, curl, curs, ecos, ecru, ecus, locs, luce, orcs, recs, and rocs — 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 closure turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, our, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are cel, col, cor, cos, cru, cue, cur, eco, ecu, loc, orc, rec, roc, sec, and soc — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in closure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, lo, oe, or, os, re, so, and us — 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 closure 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.
closure 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for closure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
closure is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing closure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are closure and colures, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from closure 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 closure produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.