Hidden inside licenses sit licenses and silences, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
licenses and silences tie for the highest Scrabble score from licenses at 10 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in licenses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and licenses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: licenses and silences, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in licenses produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with license and silence. For points, the strongest plays are iceless, license, selenic, and silence — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling licenses turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nieces, scenes, and slices. For points, the strongest plays are censes, clines, ecesis, incels, nieces, scenes, and slices — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in licenses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, niece, scene, sense, since, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, cense, cines, cline, incel, niece, scene, sices, since, 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 licenses produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, ices, less, lice, lies, line, and nice. For points, the strongest plays are cees, ceil, cels, cess, cine, ices, lice, nice, secs, sice, and sics — 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 licenses turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, see, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, cis, ice, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in licenses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, in, is, li, ne, 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 licenses and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
licenses 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 five senses for licenses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
licenses is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing licenses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are licenses and silences, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from licenses 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 licenses produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.