Hidden inside cilices sit cilices and icicles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cilices and icicles tie for the highest Scrabble score from cilices at 11 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cilices: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cilices 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 cilices and icicles, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cilices plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cilices 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.
cilices 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.
cilices is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cilices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cilices and icicles, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cilices 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 cilices produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.