Hidden inside limacons sit laconism and limacons, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 271 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
laconism and limacons tie for the highest Scrabble score from limacons at 12 points. The top 10 of 271 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in limacons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and limacons 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 laconism and limacons, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in limacons produces 9 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 anosmic, camions, clonism, limacon, maniocs, and masonic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling limacons turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino, claims, salmon, and social. For points, the strongest plays are anomic, camion, claims, macons, manics, manioc, mascon, mosaic, and socman — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limacons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calms, claim, coins, colas, comas, limos, and lions. For points, the strongest plays are amnic, calms, camis, camos, claim, clams, comal, comas, macon, malic, manic, micas, monic, and osmic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in limacons produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, also, calm, cans, coin, cola, and coma. For points, the strongest plays are calm, cami, camo, cams, clam, coma, macs, mica, mics, mocs, and scam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling limacons turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, can, con, man, oil, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mic, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limacons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 limacons 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.
limacons 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
limacons is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing limacons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are laconism and limacons, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from limacons 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 limacons produce 271 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.