Hidden inside special sit plaices and special, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plaices and special tie for the highest Scrabble score from special at 11 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in special: one comes from rearranging its letters, and special itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with special. For points, the strongest plays are plaices and special — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling special turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with places. For points, the strongest plays are apices, epical, places, plaice, plicae, plicas, spicae, and splice — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in special. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, capes, claps, clips, leaps, piles, and place. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capes, claps, clasp, clips, epics, paces, pical, picas, place, plica, scalp, scape, sepic, space, spica, and spice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in special produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, case, clap, clip, and epic. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, ceps, clap, clip, epic, pace, pacs, pecs, pica, pice, pics, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling special turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, cap, ice, lap, lie, lip, and pal. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in special. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 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 special 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.
special 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 ten senses for special. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
special is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing special unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are plaices and special, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from special 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 special produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.