Hidden inside alec sit alec and lace, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alec and lace tie for the highest Scrabble score from alec at 6 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in alec: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alec itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alec and lace, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling alec turns up 6 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ace, cal, cel, and lac, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alec. 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.
28 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in alec plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alec 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.
alec 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.
alec is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alec unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alec and lace, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alec 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 alec produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.