philippic needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
philippic is the highest-scoring word from philippic, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in philippic — and it is philippic itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in philippic plus one additional letter.
philippic 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for philippic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
philippic is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing philippic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is philippic, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from philippic 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 philippic produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.