Unscramble clues

Unscramble CLUES and you have 24 words, CLUES itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. CLUES has 1 anagram here, LUCES, scoring 7 like CLUES itself. Among the shorter answers, 6 reach 6 points, CLUE, CUES and CELS among them. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.

Looking for sluce, celsu, scule, cluse, eucls, leusc, seclu, secul, cesul or csule? They use the same letters as CLUES, so the words on this page are their answers too.

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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.

Possible Words From clues

By length, the words from CLUES split into 2 with 5 letters, 9 with 4, 10 with 3 and 3 with 2.

5 Letter Words You Can Make with clues

2 5-letter words made with CLUES letters use every letter: CLUES and its 1 anagram LUCES, all with 7 points.

4 Letter Words You Can Make with clues

6 of 9 4-letter words in CLUES tie at 6 points; none scores more. CLUE and CUES will look familiar.

3 Letter Words You Can Make with clues

10 3-letter words from CLUES; 4 of them share the top score of 5. USE, SEC and CUE are everyday picks.

2 Letter Words You Can Make with clues

All 3 of the 2-letter words you get when you unscramble CLUES score 2 points. US is the one most people know.

Change One Tile in CLUES

These 6 words have the length of CLUES, with one letter different:

S R gives CRUEL · words from cruel
U A gives SCALE · unscramble scale
L A gives CAUSE · words from cause
S N gives UNCLE · unscramble uncle
E M gives CULMS · unscramble culms
U M gives CLEMS · words from clems

More 5-letter words: starting with CL · ending in ES · all 5-letter words

Add two letters to CLUES:

CLUES + R + T · unscramble cluster

Meanings of the Strongest CLUES Answers

What CLUES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.

Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends

CLUES 7 · 10: to give guiding information
LUCES 7 · 10: a freshwater fish
CELS 6 · 8: a sheet of celluloid used in animation
CLUE 6 · 9: to give guiding information
CUES 6 · 8: to give a signal to an actor
ECUS 6 · 8: an old French coin
LUCE 6 · 9: a freshwater fish
CEL 5 · 7: a sheet of celluloid used in animation

Is CLUES Playable in Scrabble and Words With Friends?

CLUES 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*
CLUES itself	Yes	Yes	Yes
Answers accepted (of 24)	21	24	21

* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.

Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SCUL, ULES and ULE, 3 in all.

Longer Words Built on CLUES

These 12 words take every letter of CLUES plus a single extra one.

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