Hidden inside interlaces sit centralise, interlaces, lacertines and 1 other, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
centralise, interlaces, lacertines and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from interlaces at 12 points. The top 10 of 1216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 ten-letter words hiding in interlaces: three come from rearranging its letters, and interlaces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centralise, interlaces, lacertines, and linecaster, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling interlaces turns up 20 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cartelise, centiares, cisternae and 13 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 70 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with articles, cleaners and cleanest. For points, 44 words tie at 10 points, including articles, cleaners and cleanest.
Rearranging the letters in interlaces produces 175 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, centers and central. For points, 99 words tie at 9 points, including article, centers and central.
Unscrambling interlaces turns up 278 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, aliens and alters. For points, 124 words tie at 8 points, including castle, caters and center.
There are 310 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and alien. For points, 101 words tie at 7 points, including scale, scare and scene.
Rearranging the letters in interlaces produces 233 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and ants. For points, 58 words tie at 6 points, including acts, lice and nice.
Unscrambling interlaces turns up 102 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 24 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
8 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in interlaces plus one additional letter.
interlaces 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 interlaces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
interlaces is one of four ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing interlaces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are centralise, interlaces, lacertines, and linecaster, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from interlaces 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 interlaces produce 1216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 ten-letter words, 20 nine-letter words, 70 eight-letter words, 175 seven-letter words, 278 six-letter words, 310 five-letter words, 233 four-letter words, 102 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.