Hidden inside reclaim sit claimer, miracle, and reclaim, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
claimer, miracle, and reclaim tie for the highest Scrabble score from reclaim at 11 points. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in reclaim: two come from rearranging its letters, and reclaim itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miracle. For points, the strongest plays are claimer, miracle, and reclaim — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reclaim 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 words are calmer, malice, and marcel, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reclaim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camel, claim, clear, cream, crime, email, and lamer. For points, the strongest plays are amice, camel, claim, clime, cream, crime, macer, macle, malic, melic, and micra — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reclaim produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calm, came, care, cram, lame, liar, and lice. For points, the strongest plays are acme, calm, came, cami, clam, cram, emic, mace, marc, merc, mica, and mice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reclaim turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, car, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reclaim. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in reclaim 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.
reclaim 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 five senses for reclaim. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
reclaim is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reclaim unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are claimer, miracle, and reclaim, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reclaim 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 reclaim produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.