Hidden inside calque sit calque and claque, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calque and claque tie for the highest Scrabble score from calque at 17 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in calque: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calque itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calque and claque, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calque. If a familiar word is all you need, start with equal. For points, the strongest plays are equal and quale — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in calque produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue. For points, the strongest plays are alec, caul, clue, lace, and luce — 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 calque turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue. For points, the strongest play is qua — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calque. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, al, el, and la, 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 calque and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
calque 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 one sense for calque. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
calque is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calque unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calque and claque, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calque 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 calque produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.