Hidden inside sclerae sit cereals, relaces, rescale and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cereals, relaces, rescale and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from sclerae at 9 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in sclerae: three come from rearranging its letters, and sclerae itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals. For points, the strongest plays are cereals, relaces, rescale, and sclerae — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sclerae turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereal and clears. For points, the strongest plays are carles, cereal, clears, crease, creels, lacers, relace, scaler, and sclera — 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sclerae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cease, clear, erase, laser, lease, and races. For points, the strongest plays are acres, alecs, cares, carle, carls, carse, cease, ceres, clear, creel, escar, lacer, laces, races, scale, scare, scree, and serac — 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 sclerae produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, ears, ease, else, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, alec, arcs, cals, care, carl, cars, case, cees, cels, cere, lace, lacs, race, recs, and scar — 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 sclerae turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, car, cee, cel, lac, rec, sac, and sec — 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 sclerae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, 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.
Swap a single tile in sclerae 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.
sclerae 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
sclerae is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sclerae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cereals, relaces, rescale, and sclerae, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sclerae 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 sclerae produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.