quicklime needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 26 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quicklime is the highest-scoring word from quicklime, worth 26 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in quicklime — and it is quicklime itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 26 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quicklime produces exactly one seven-letter word: quickie. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quicklime turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is clique, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quicklime. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: quick, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in quicklime produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, lice and lick. For points, the strongest play is muck — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quicklime turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, ice, and lie. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in quicklime plus one additional letter.
quicklime 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for quicklime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 26 points on a Scrabble board:
quicklime is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quicklime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is quicklime, worth 26 points in Scrabble, and no other word from quicklime 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 quicklime produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.