Hidden inside encloser sit encloser and ensorcel, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
encloser and ensorcel tie for the highest Scrabble score from encloser at 10 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in encloser: one comes from rearranging its letters, and encloser 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 encloser and ensorcel, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encloser 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 cloners, cornels, crenels and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling encloser turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clones, closer, and screen. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including clones, closer and screen.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encloser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clone, close and cones. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including clone, close and cones.
Rearranging the letters in encloser produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons and core. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including cone, cons and core.
Unscrambling encloser turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor and one. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including con, cee and cel.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encloser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including no, on and or.
9 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in encloser plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in encloser 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.
encloser 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.
encloser is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing encloser unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are encloser and ensorcel, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from encloser 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 encloser produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.