Hidden inside fancies sit fancies, fascine, and fiances, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fancies, fascine, and fiances tie for the highest Scrabble score from fancies at 12 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in fancies: two come from rearranging its letters, and fancies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fiances. For points, the strongest plays are fancies, fascine, and fiances — each 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 fancies turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fiance. For points, the strongest plays are facies, fiance, and fincas — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fancies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafes, faces, and since. For points, the strongest plays are cafes, faces, fices, and finca — 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 fancies produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe, cans, case, face, fans, fine, and ices. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, cafs, face, fice, and fisc — 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 fancies turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, fan, ice, sea, and sin. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fancies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, if, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 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 fancies 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.
fancies 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for fancies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
fancies is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fancies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fancies, fascine, and fiances, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fancies 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 fancies produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.