Hidden inside closures sit closures and sclerous, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
closures and sclerous tie for the highest Scrabble score from closures at 10 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in closures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and closures itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closures. For points, the strongest plays are closures and sclerous — 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 closures produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closure, courses, and sources. For points, the strongest plays are closers, closure, colures, courses, cresols, oscules, sources, and sucrose — 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 closures turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer, closes, course, curses, losers, louses, and scores. For points, the strongest plays are ceorls, cerous, closer, closes, clours, coleus, colure, corses, course, cresol, crosse, crouse, cruses, curses, cusser, lucres, oscule, scores, scours, scouse, socles, source, sucres, 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in closures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, clues, cores, cross, cruel, cures, and curls. For points, the strongest plays are ceorl, ceros, close, clour, clues, coles, cores, corse, coses, cress, cross, cruel, cruse, cures, curls, curse, cusso, ecrus, locus, luces, lucre, score, scour, soces, 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 closures produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, core, cues, cure, curl, less, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are cels, cero, cess, clue, cole, cols, core, cors, coss, crus, cues, cure, curl, curs, cuss, ecos, ecru, ecus, locs, luce, orcs, recs, rocs, and secs — 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 closures turns up 37 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 closures. 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 closures and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
closures 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 closures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
closures is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing closures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are closures and sclerous, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from closures 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 closures produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.