Hidden inside silences 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 silences 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 silences: one comes from rearranging its letters, and silences 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 silences 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 silences 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 silences. 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 silences 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 silences 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 silences. 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 silences 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.
silences 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 six senses for silences. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
silences is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing silences 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 silences 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 silences 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.