occludes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
occludes is the highest-scoring word from occludes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in occludes — and it is occludes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occludes produces exactly one seven-letter word: occlude. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occludes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closed and clouds. For points, the strongest play is codecs — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occludes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, cloud, clues, codes, colds, could, and louse. For points, the strongest play is codec — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in occludes produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, code, cold, cues, does, lose, and loud. For points, the strongest plays are clod, code, cods, coed, cold, cuds, cued, deco, docs, duce, and scud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling occludes turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, due, led, old, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are cod, cud, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occludes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in occludes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in occludes 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.
occludes 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 4-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 occludes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
occludes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing occludes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is occludes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from occludes 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 occludes produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.