Hidden inside larcenies sit larcenies and reliances, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 489 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
larcenies and reliances tie for the highest Scrabble score from larcenies at 11 points. The top 10 of 489 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in larcenies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and larcenies 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 larcenies and reliances, 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 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larcenies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cleaners and increase. For points, the strongest plays are carlines, cleaners, cleanser, increase, lanciers, licenser, recleans, reclines, reliance, salience, and silencer — 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 larcenies produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cereals, cleaner, cleanse, license, silence, and sincere. For points, the strongest plays are arcsine, arsenic, careens, carline, carlins, carnies, caserne, ceilers, cereals, ceresin, claries, cleaner, cleanse, crenels, eclairs, enlaces, inlaces, lancers, license, recanes, reclean, recline, relaces, rescale, sanicle, scalene, scaleni, scalier, sclerae, selenic, silence, and sincere — 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 larcenies turns up 90 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, cereal, cleans, clears, easier, learns, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are cairns, caners, careen, caries, carles, carlin, carnie, casein, casern, ceiler, censer, cereal, cerias, cerise, cleans, clears, clines, cranes, crease, creels, crenel, eclair, encase, enlace, ericas, incase, incels, inlace, lacers, lacier, lancer, lances, linacs, nacres, nieces, rances, recane, relace, relics, scaler, sclera, screen, seance, secern, seneca, and slicer — 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 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larcenies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, cares, cease, clean, clear, and cries. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, acres, alecs, areic, cains, cairn, caner, canes, cares, carle, carls, carns, carse, cease, ceils, cense, ceres, ceria, cines, cires, clans, clean, clear, cline, crane, creel, crias, cries, erica, escar, ileac, incel, lacer, laces, laics, lance, linac, nacre, narcs, naric, nicer, niece, races, rance, relic, rices, saice, salic, scale, scare, scena, scene, scran, scree, serac, since, and slice — 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 larcenies produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, lane, lean, liar, lice, lies, and line. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acre, alec, arcs, asci, lace, lacs, laic, lice, narc, nice, race, recs, rice, scan, scar, sice, cain, cals, cane, cans, care, carl, carn, cars, case, cees, ceil, cels, cere, cine, cire, clan, cria, cris, and ices — 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 larcenies turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, can, car, ear, era, and ice. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, can, car, cee, cel, cis, ice, lac, rec, sac, sec, and sic — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larcenies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, ar, as, el, en, er, es, in, is, la, li, na, ne, re, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in larcenies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in larcenies 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.
larcenies 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 one sense for larcenies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
larcenies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing larcenies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are larcenies and reliances, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from larcenies 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 larcenies produce 489 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 90 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.