Unscramble ARCSEC to get 56 words. ARCSEC itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 10 points: SCARCE. CECA is the best of the shorter words, at 8 points. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
A1R1C34S1E1C34
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from ARCSEC by length: 2 with 6 letters, 9 with 5, 20 with 4, 18 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of ARCSEC but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with AR · ending in EC · all 6-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with SCARCE (10 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
ARCSEC is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCSEC itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 56) | 47 | 56 | 47 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 9 of them: ARCSEC, ACERS, SCRAE, ACER, AESC, CEAS, EAS, SAR and EA.
These 11 words take every letter of ARCSEC plus a single extra one.