clue and luce tie for the highest Scrabble score from clue at 6 points. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in clue: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clue itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue. For points, the strongest plays are clue and luce — 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 clue turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue. For points, the strongest plays are cel, cue, and ecu — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling clue produces exactly one two-letter word: el. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in clue and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
clue 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 three senses for clue. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
clue is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clue unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clue and luce, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clue 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 clue produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.