Unscramble CLAMSHELL and you have 205 words, CLAMSHELL itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 13: 5 of them, SCHEMA, SACHEM and MACHES included. The 9 letters split into 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from CLAMSHELL by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 17 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 47 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Among 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble CLAMSHELL, the top score is 12, reached by 6. SMALL, SCALE and CELLS are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 4-letter words from CLAMSHELL, 4 score 11 points, the group's best. EACH, CASE and CALL are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of CLAMSHELL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CL · ending in LL · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by MACHES, SACHEM, SAMECH and SCHEMA (13 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CLAMSHELL works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLAMSHELL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 205) | 167 | 205 | 156 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 38 of them: SCHELM, SEALCH, CHALS, CLAMES, MASCLE, SCAMEL, SHALM, CHAL, CHAS, CLAME, CLEMS, EMACS and 26 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: CHEMS, MECHS, CHEM, MECH, MEH, LAHS, AHS, CALS, LAH, CAL and MES.
Each word below uses all the letters of CLAMSHELL and one more.