Hidden inside eclipsed sit eclipsed, pedicels, and pedicles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eclipsed, pedicels, and pedicles tie for the highest Scrabble score from eclipsed at 13 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in eclipsed: two come from rearranging its letters, and eclipsed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eclipsed, pedicels, and pedicles, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in eclipsed produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pedicel, pedicle, and spliced, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eclipsed turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pieces and sliced. For points, the strongest plays are cleped, pieced, and spiced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eclipsed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clips, delis, dices, peels, piece, piles, and sleep. For points, the strongest plays are cepes, clepe, clips, epics, piece, sepic, and spice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in eclipsed produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, deep, deli, dice, dies, dips, and else. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, ceps, clip, epic, pecs, pice, pics, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eclipsed turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ice, ids, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eclipsed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 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 eclipsed and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
eclipsed 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.
eclipsed is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eclipsed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eclipsed, pedicels, and pedicles, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eclipsed 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 eclipsed produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.