Hidden inside slicer 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.
Unscramble SLRCIE, ERCILS or ECSRIL and you get the same 6 letters as SLICER: so the words from SLICER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
relics and slicer tie for the highest Scrabble score from slicer 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 slicer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slicer 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.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slicer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, rices, and slice. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including cries, rices and slice.
Rearranging the letters in slicer produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, lice and lies. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including ices, lice and rice.
Unscrambling slicer turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, and sir. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ice, cel and cis.
16 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in slicer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slicer 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.
slicer 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 three senses for slicer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
slicer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slicer 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 slicer 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 slicer 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.