Hidden inside clave sit calve and clave, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 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.
calve and clave tie for the highest Scrabble score from clave at 10 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in clave: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clave itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calve and clave, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clave produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave and veal. For points, the strongest play is cave — 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 clave turns up 10 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vac, worth 8 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 clave. 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 clave and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
clave 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.
clave is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clave unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calve and clave, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clave 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 clave produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.