Hidden inside aces sit aces and case, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 10 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aces and case tie for the highest Scrabble score from aces at 6 points. The top 10 of 10 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in aces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case. For points, the strongest plays are aces and case — 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 aces turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, as, and es — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
39 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in aces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aces and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
aces 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for aces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
aces is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aces and case, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aces 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 aces produce 10 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.