lychees needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lychees is the highest-scoring word from lychees, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lychees — and it is lychees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lychees turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheesy. For points, the strongest plays are cheesy, chyles, lychee, and lyches — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lychees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heels. For points, the strongest plays are chyle and yechs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lychees produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, eyes, and heel. For points, the strongest plays are lych and yech — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lychees turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, hey and see. For points, the strongest plays are hey, shy, and yeh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lychees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, sh, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in lychees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lychees 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.
lychees 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in lychees carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for lychees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
lychees is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lychees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lychees, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lychees 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 lychees produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.