Hidden inside claire sit eclair and lacier, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eclair and lacier tie for the highest Scrabble score from claire at 8 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling claire turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eclair and lacier, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in claire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clear. For points, the strongest plays are areic, carle, ceria, clear, erica, ileac, lacer, and relic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in claire produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, liar, lice, race, real, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are acre, alec, care, carl, ceil, cire, cria, lace, laic, lice, race, and rice — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling claire turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, car, ear, era, ice, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, car, cel, ice, lac, and rec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in claire. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, ai, al, ar, el, er, la, li, and re, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
29 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in claire plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in claire and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eclair and lacier, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from claire 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 claire produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.