Hidden inside declare sit cleared, creedal, declare and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cleared, creedal, declare and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from declare at 10 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in declare: three come from rearranging its letters, and declare itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleared and declare. For points, the strongest plays are cleared, creedal, declare, and relaced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling declare turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereal, dealer, and leader. For points, the strongest plays are cradle, credal, decare, and reclad — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in declare. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared, clear, and raced. For points, the strongest plays are acred, arced, cadre, cared, cedar, ceder, cered, clade, creed, decal, laced, and raced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in declare produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care, dare, deal, dear, deer, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, card, cede, clad, cred, and dace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling declare turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, lad, led, and red. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in declare. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 declare and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
declare 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 eight senses for declare. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
declare is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing declare unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cleared, creedal, declare, and relaced, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from declare 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 declare produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.