Hidden inside interlace sit interlace, lacertine, and reclinate, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 438 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
interlace, lacertine, and reclinate tie for the highest Scrabble score from interlace at 11 points. The top 10 of 438 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in interlace: two come from rearranging its letters, and interlace itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are interlace, lacertine, and reclinate, 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 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlace. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centiare, clarinet, creatine, increate, iterance, and reliance, 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 interlace produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, central, certain, cleaner, eternal, and recital. For points, the strongest plays are article, carline, centare, centile, central, ceratin, certain, cleaner, creatin, crenate, enteric, enticer, lectern, licente, recital, reclean, recline, reenact, reticle, tacrine, talcier, tiercel, and treacle — 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 interlace turns up 88 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, cereal, client, create, entire, neater, and recent. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, atelic, canter, cantle, careen, carlin, carnet, carnie, cartel, catlin, ceiler, centai, cental, center, centra, centre, cerate, cereal, cerite, cetane, citral, claret, client, create, crenel, cretin, ecarte, eclair, enatic, enlace, entice, inlace, lacier, lancer, lancet, lectin, lentic, nectar, recane, recant, recent, recite, rectal, relace, relict, rictal, tanrec, tenace, tenrec, tercel, tierce, tincal, and trance — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlace. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alien, alter, cater, clean, clear, and eaten. For points, the strongest plays are actin, antic, areic, cairn, caner, caret, carle, carte, cater, ceria, citer, clean, clear, cleat, cline, crane, crate, creel, eclat, elect, enact, erect, erica, ileac, incel, lacer, lance, linac, nacre, naric, nicer, niece, rance, react, recit, recta, recti, relic, telic, terce, tical, trace, triac, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in interlace produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, cent, earn, lane, late, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are acne, acre, alec, cain, cane, cant, care, carl, carn, cart, cate, ceil, celt, cent, cere, cert, cete, cine, cire, cite, clan, clit, cria, crit, etic, lace, laic, lice, narc, nice, race, rice, tace, and talc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling interlace turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, cal, can, car, cat, cee, cel, ice, lac, rec, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlace. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, ar, at, el, en, er, et, in, it, la, li, na, ne, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
12 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in interlace plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in interlace and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
interlace 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 two senses for interlace. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
interlace is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing interlace unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are interlace, lacertine, and reclinate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from interlace 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 interlace produce 438 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 88 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.