Hidden inside closes sit closes and socles, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
closes and socles tie for the highest Scrabble score from closes at 8 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in closes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and closes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes. For points, the strongest plays are closes and socles — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in closes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close and loses. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including close, coles and coses.
Rearranging the letters in closes produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lose, and loss. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including cels, cess and cole.
Unscrambling closes turns up 15 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cel, col, cos and 4 more, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in closes 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.
closes 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 thirty-seven senses for closes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
closes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing closes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are closes and socles, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from closes 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 closes produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.