Hidden inside slicker sit lickers and slicker, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lickers and slicker tie for the highest Scrabble score from slicker at 13 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in slicker: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slicker itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lickers and slicker, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slicker turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sicker. For points, the strongest plays are clerks, ickers, licker, sicker, and sickle — each worth 12 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 slicker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, licks, likes, rices, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are clerk, icker, licks, recks, ricks, and slick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slicker produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, lice, lick, lies, like, rice, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are icks, lick, reck, rick, and sick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slicker turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, sir, and ski. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 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 slicker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 slicker and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
slicker 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 slicker. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
slicker is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slicker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lickers and slicker, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slicker 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 slicker produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.