Hidden inside relics sit relics and slicer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
relics and slicer tie for the highest Scrabble score from relics at 8 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in relics: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relics itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are relics and slicer, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relics. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, rices, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, cires, cries, relic, rices, and slice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relics produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, lice, lies, rice, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are ceil, cels, cire, cris, ices, lice, recs, rice, and sice — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relics turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are cel, cis, ice, rec, sec, and sic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relics. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, is, li, re, and si — each worth 2 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 relics and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
relics 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for relics. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
relics is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relics unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are relics and slicer, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relics 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 relics produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.