conclaves needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conclaves is the highest-scoring word from conclaves, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in conclaves — and it is conclaves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conclaves. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are concaves and conclave, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in conclaves produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancels. For points, the strongest play is concave — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling conclaves turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calves, cancel and cleans. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including calves, alcove and claves.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conclaves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, caves and clean. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including caves, calve and clave.
Rearranging the letters in conclaves produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, cans and case. For points, the strongest plays are cave, cove, and vacs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling conclaves turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, con and one. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conclaves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and no. For points, 16 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and no.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in conclaves plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in conclaves and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
conclaves 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for conclaves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
conclaves is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing conclaves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is conclaves, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from conclaves 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 conclaves produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.