Hidden inside anglice sit angelic, anglice, and galenic, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
angelic, anglice, and galenic tie for the highest Scrabble score from anglice at 10 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in anglice: two come from rearranging its letters, and anglice itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angelic, anglice, and galenic, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling anglice turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glance, incage, and lacing, each worth 9 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 anglice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel, angle, and clean. For points, the strongest plays are acing, clang, cling, genic, and glace — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in anglice produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, gain, lane, lean, lice, line, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are cage, clag, and cleg — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling anglice turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, can, gal, ice, leg, lie, and nag. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anglice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in anglice and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
anglice 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
anglice is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anglice unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are angelic, anglice, and galenic, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from anglice 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 anglice produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.