Hidden inside clerics sit circles and clerics, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
circles and clerics tie for the highest Scrabble score from clerics at 11 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in clerics: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clerics itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with circles. For points, the strongest plays are circles and clerics — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clerics. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, rices, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are cerci, ceric, and circs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clerics produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, lice and lies. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including ices, lice and rice.
Unscrambling clerics turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, and sir. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ice, cel and cis.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in clerics plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clerics 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.
clerics 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 one sense for clerics. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
clerics is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clerics unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are circles and clerics, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clerics 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 clerics produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.