Hidden inside proclaims sit comprisal, piclorams, and proclaims, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 486 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comprisal, piclorams, and proclaims tie for the highest Scrabble score from proclaims at 15 points. The top 10 of 486 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in proclaims: two come from rearranging its letters, and proclaims itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comprisal, piclorams, and proclaims, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proclaims. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oilcamps, picloram, and proclaim, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in proclaims produces 10 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 copalms, oilcamp, plasmic, and psalmic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proclaims turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claims, sailor, and social. For points, 9 words tie at 12 points, including campos, clamps and clomps.
There are 135 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proclaims. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calms, camps and claim. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including camps, campi and campo.
Rearranging the letters in proclaims produces 174 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and also. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proclaims turns up 96 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proclaims. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and is. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in proclaims plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in proclaims and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
proclaims 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 proclaims. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
proclaims is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proclaims unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are comprisal, piclorams, and proclaims, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from proclaims 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 proclaims produce 486 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 135 five-letter words, 174 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.