Hidden inside ancillary sit ancillary and cranially, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ancillary and cranially tie for the highest Scrabble score from ancillary at 14 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ancillary: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ancillary itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ancillary and cranially, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ancillary. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carnally and racially, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ancillary produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is lyrical, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ancillary turns up 17 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cairny, canary, lacily, and racily, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ancillary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lyric and rally. For points, the strongest plays are carny, clary, lycra, and lyric — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ancillary produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, clay, liar, nail, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are acyl, clay, cyan, lacy, and racy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ancillary turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all, any, can, car, cry, and ill. For points, the strongest plays are cay, cry, and icy — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ancillary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ancillary plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ancillary and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ancillary 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ancillary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
ancillary is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ancillary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ancillary and cranially, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ancillary 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 ancillary produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.