basilica needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
basilica is the highest-scoring word from basilica, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in basilica — and it is basilica itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling basilica produces exactly one seven-letter word: basilic. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling basilica turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cabals, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basilica. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails and basic. For points, the strongest plays are abaci, basic, and cabal — 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 basilica produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, cabs, labs, and sail. For points, the strongest plays are cabs and scab — 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 basilica turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cab and lab. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in basilica. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — 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 basilica 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.
basilica 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 two senses for basilica. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
basilica is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing basilica unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is basilica, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from basilica 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 basilica produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.