Hidden inside lanced sit candle and lanced, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
candle and lanced tie for the highest Scrabble score from lanced at 9 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in lanced: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lanced itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candle. For points, the strongest plays are candle and lanced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lanced. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean and dance. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including dance, acned and caned.
Rearranging the letters in lanced produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, land and lane. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, clad, and dace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lanced turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, can and end. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lanced. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
16 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lanced plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lanced and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
lanced 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.
lanced is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lanced unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are candle and lanced, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lanced 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 lanced produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.