eclipses needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eclipses is the highest-scoring word from eclipses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in eclipses — and it is eclipses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in eclipses produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with species. For points, the strongest plays are eclipse, species, and splices — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eclipses turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pieces, sleeps, slices, and spices. For points, the strongest plays are clepes, pieces, specie, spices, and splice — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eclipses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clips, peels, piece, piles, sleep, slice, and slips. For points, the strongest plays are cepes, clepe, clips, epics, piece, sepic, specs, 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 eclipses produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, else, epic, ices, less, lice, and lies. 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 eclipses turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, lip, pee, pie, see, and sip. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eclipses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 eclipses 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.
eclipses 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 eclipses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
eclipses is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eclipses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is eclipses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from eclipses 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 eclipses produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.