Hidden inside illitic sit illicit and illitic, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
illicit and illitic tie for the highest Scrabble score from illitic at 9 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in illitic: one comes from rearranging its letters, and illitic 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 illicit and illitic, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling illitic produces exactly one five-letter word: licit. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in illitic 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.
illitic 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.
illitic is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing illitic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are illicit and illitic, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from illitic 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 illitic produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.