Hidden inside clutch sit clutch and cultch, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 9 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clutch and cultch tie for the highest Scrabble score from clutch at 13 points. The top 9 of 9 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in clutch: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clutch itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clutch and cultch, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clutch. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are culch and cutch, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling clutch produces exactly one four-letter word: cult. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling clutch turns up 2 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cut. For points, the strongest play is hut — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clutch. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: uh, worth 5 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 clutch 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.
clutch 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 ten senses for clutch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
clutch is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clutch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clutch and cultch, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clutch 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 clutch produce 9 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 2 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.