Hidden inside lattices sit lattices and talciest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lattices and talciest tie for the highest Scrabble score from lattices at 10 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in lattices: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lattices itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lattices and talciest, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lattices produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are catties, elastic, laciest and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lattices turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attics, castle and cattle. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including attics, castle and cattle.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lattices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, attic and latte. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including attic, scale and slice.
Rearranging the letters in lattices produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case and cast. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including acts, case and cast.
Unscrambling lattices turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate and cat. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including act, cat and ice.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lattices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 16 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in lattices plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lattices and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
lattices 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 three senses for lattices. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
lattices is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lattices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lattices and talciest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lattices 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 lattices produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.