Hidden inside icons sit cions, coins, icons and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cions, coins, icons and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from icons at 7 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in icons: four come from rearranging its letters, and icons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including coins, cions and icons.
23 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in icons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in icons and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
icons 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.
icons is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing icons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cions, coins, icons, scion, and sonic, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from icons 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 icons produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.