No word spells EXLILAC. Unscramble EXLILAC instead and you have 54 words, and the best is LEXICAL at 16 points. Of the shorter words, ALEXIC and LEXICA lead with 15 points. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from EXLILAC split into 1 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 7 with 5, 16 with 4, 16 with 3 and 10 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in EXLILAC: LEXICAL, 16 points.
Keep every letter of EXLILAC but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with LE · ending in AL · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by LEXICAL (16 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
None of the three games accepts EXLILAC itself. Its letters still make 54 playable words, split by game below.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXLILAC itself | No | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 54) | 49 | 54 | 47 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALLICE, CAILLE, CIEL, CILL and EA, 5 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ALEXIC and CAL, 2 in all.