Unscramble ELICHES and you have 102 words, ELICHES itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. 2 anagrams of ELICHES are on the page: HELICES and LICHEES, each 12 points. 11 shorter words score 11, among them CHISEL, CHILES and CHESIL. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. ELICHES as a single 7-tile play makes 62 in Scrabble, 12 plus the 50 bonus, and 48 in Words With Friends (13 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from ELICHES by length: 3 with 7 letters, 12 with 6, 18 with 5, 32 with 4, 26 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
Keep every letter of ELICHES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with EL · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by HELICES and LICHEES (12 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
ELICHES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the Words With Friends list leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELICHES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 102) | 71 | 102 | 69 |
* NWL2023 (US), Collins CSW24 (UK); the Words With Friends list changes.
31 of the 102 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ELICHES, CHESIL, ELCHIS, ELICHE, SLEECH, ELCHI, ICHES, EECH, SECH, SICH, CHE, ECH and 19 more. 2 of the 102 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HEILS and HEIL.
These 7 words take every letter of ELICHES plus a single extra one.