basilicas needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
basilicas is the highest-scoring word from basilicas, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in basilicas — and it is basilicas itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling basilicas produces exactly one eight-letter word: basilica. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in basilicas produces 3 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 basilic, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling basilicas turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are basics and cabals, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basilicas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, basic and basis. For points, the strongest plays are abaci, basic, cabal, and scabs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in basilicas produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bass and cabs. For points, the strongest plays are cabs and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling basilicas turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, cab, and lab. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basilicas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in basilicas 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.
basilicas 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 two senses for basilicas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
basilicas is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing basilicas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is basilicas, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from basilicas 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 basilicas produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.