larceny needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CARENLY, NEARCLY or RECLANY and you get the same 7 letters as LARCENY: so the words from LARCENY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
larceny is the highest-scoring word from larceny, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in larceny — and it is larceny itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larceny. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, clear and early. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including carny, clary and lacey.
Rearranging the letters in larceny produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, clay and earn. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including clay, acyl and cyan.
Unscrambling larceny turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, are and aye. For points, the strongest plays are cay and cry — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in larceny. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in larceny plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in larceny and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
larceny 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 2-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 larceny. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
larceny is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing larceny unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is larceny, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from larceny 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 larceny produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.