Hidden inside lichees sit helices and lichees, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
helices and lichees tie for the highest Scrabble score from lichees at 12 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lichees: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lichees itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are helices and lichees, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lichees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chile, heels, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are chiel, chile, eches, and leech — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lichees produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, heel and ices. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including chis, eche and ichs.
Unscrambling lichees turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, ice and lie. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lichees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lichees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lichees 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.
lichees 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 1-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 lichees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
lichees is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lichees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are helices and lichees, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lichees 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 lichees produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.