Hidden inside pincerlike sit pincerlike and princelike, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pincerlike and princelike tie for the highest Scrabble score from pincerlike at 18 points. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in pincerlike: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pincerlike itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pincerlike and princelike, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pincerlike. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epiclike and pickerel, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pincerlike produces 14 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 peckier, pickeer, pickier and 2 more, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pincerlike turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nickel, pencil and pickle. For points, the strongest plays are pecker, picker, and pickle — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pincerlike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer, niece and piece. For points, the strongest play is prick — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pincerlike produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, epic and keep. For points, the strongest plays are peck and pick — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pincerlike turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, ink and lie. For points, the strongest plays are ick, kep, and kip — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
pincerlike 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.
pincerlike is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pincerlike unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pincerlike and princelike, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pincerlike 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 pincerlike produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.