What SHELLAC Means
- noun: lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
- noun: a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood
- verb: cover with shellac“She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SHELLAC is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 H4 E1 L1 L1 A1 C3.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In SHELLAC
109 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (3)
5 letter words (27)
ACHESALECSCALLSCELLACELLSCHALSCHASECHELACLAESCLASHHALESHALLSHALSEHEALSHELLSLACESLEACHLEASHSALLESCALESCALLSELAHSELLASHALESHALLSHEALSHELL
4 letter words (35)
ACESACHEAESCALECALESALLSCALLCASECASHCEASCELLCELSCHALCHASEACHELLSHAESHALEHALLHEALLACELACSLAHSLASELASHLEALLEASLECHSALESALLSEALSECHSELLSHEASLAE
3 letter words (31)
2 letter words (13)
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