Hidden inside lascar sit craals, lascar, rascal and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
craals, lascar, rascal and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lascar at 8 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in lascar: four come from rearranging its letters, and lascar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are craals, lascar, rascal, sacral, and scalar, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lascar. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carls, craal, and sacra, 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 lascar produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cars and scar. For points, the strongest plays are arcs, cals, carl, cars, casa, lacs, and scar — 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 lascar turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with car. For points, the strongest plays are arc, cal, car, lac, and sac — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lascar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are aa, al, ar, as, and la — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in lascar 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.
lascar 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 two senses for lascar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lascar is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lascar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are craals, lascar, rascal, sacral, and scalar, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lascar 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 lascar produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.