Hidden inside license sit license, selenic, and silence, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
license, selenic, and silence tie for the highest Scrabble score from license at 9 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in license: two come from rearranging its letters, and license itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with license and silence. For points, the strongest plays are license, selenic, and silence — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in license. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, niece and scene. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including niece, scene and since.
Rearranging the letters in license produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, ices and lice. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including ices, lice and nice.
Unscrambling license turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, see, and sin. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ice, cee and cel.
14 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in license plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in license 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.
license 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 five senses for license. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
license is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing license unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are license, selenic, and silence, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from license 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 license produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.