Hidden inside proclaim sit picloram and proclaim, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
picloram and proclaim tie for the highest Scrabble score from proclaim at 14 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in proclaim: one comes from rearranging its letters, and proclaim 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 picloram and proclaim, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proclaim produces exactly one seven-letter word: oilcamp. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proclaim turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is copalm, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proclaim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claim and moral. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including campi, campo and clamp.
Rearranging the letters in proclaim produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calm, camp and clap. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proclaim turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and arm. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and map.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proclaim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and or. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in proclaim plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in proclaim 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.
proclaim 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 four senses for proclaim. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
proclaim is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proclaim unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are picloram and proclaim, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from proclaim 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 proclaim produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.