Hidden inside especial sit calipees and especial, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 229 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calipees and especial tie for the highest Scrabble score from especial at 12 points. The top 10 of 229 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in especial: one comes from rearranging its letters, and especial itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calipees and especial, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in especial produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with special. For points, the strongest plays are calipee, eclipse, plaices, and special — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling especial turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, escape and pieces. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including escape, pieces and places.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in especial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, capes and cease. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including capes, claps and clips.
Rearranging the letters in especial produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape and caps. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including cape, caps and clap.
Unscrambling especial turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, cap and ice. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cep and pac.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in especial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in especial plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in especial and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
especial 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 especial. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
especial is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing especial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calipees and especial, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from especial 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 especial produce 229 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.