Hidden inside lances sit cleans and lances, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cleans and lances tie for the highest Scrabble score from lances at 8 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in lances: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lances itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleans. For points, the strongest plays are cleans and lances — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, lanes, leans, and scale. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, alecs, canes, clans, clean, laces, lance, scale, and scena — 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 lances produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, case, lane, lean, sale, sane, and seal. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, alec, cals, cane, cans, case, cels, clan, lace, lacs, and scan — 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 lances turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, cal, can, cel, lac, sac, and sec — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, as, el, en, es, la, na, and ne — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
26 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lances plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lances 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.
lances 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 six senses for lances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lances is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cleans and lances, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lances 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 lances produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.