Hidden inside clears sit carles, clears, lacers and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carles, clears, lacers and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from clears at 8 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in clears: four come from rearranging its letters, and clears itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clears. For points, the strongest plays are carles, clears, lacers, 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, clear, laser, races, scale, and scare. For points, the strongest plays are acres, alecs, cares, carle, carls, carse, clear, escar, lacer, laces, races, scale, scare, 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 clears produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, ears, eras, race, and real. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, alec, arcs, cals, care, carl, cars, case, cels, 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 clears turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, car, 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 clears. 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.
50 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in clears plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clears 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.
clears 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.
Dictionaries record forty-five senses for clears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
clears is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carles, clears, lacers, scaler, and sclera, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clears 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 clears produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.