lectionary needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 796 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lectionary is the highest-scoring word from lectionary, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 796 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in lectionary — and it is lectionary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lectionary turns up 2 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: certainly, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lectionary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction and relation. For points, the strongest plays are caryotin, cryolite, enactory, and literacy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lectionary produces 62 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, central and certain. For points, 15 words tie at 12 points, including acolyte, actorly and acyloin.
Unscrambling lectionary turns up 141 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, carton and client. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including nicely, acetyl and cairny.
There are 201 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lectionary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, alert and alien. For points, 20 words tie at 10 points, including lyric, canty and carny.
Rearranging the letters in lectionary produces 225 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, late and lean. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including city, clay and acyl.
Unscrambling lectionary turns up 112 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, cry, and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lectionary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ay, oy and yo.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in lectionary plus one additional letter.
lectionary 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.
lectionary is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lectionary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lectionary, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lectionary 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 lectionary produce 796 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 62 seven-letter words, 141 six-letter words, 201 five-letter words, 225 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.