Hidden inside reticle sit reticle and tiercel, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reticle and tiercel tie for the highest Scrabble score from reticle at 9 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in reticle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reticle itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reticle and tiercel, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reticle turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ceiler, cerite, recite, relict, tercel, and tierce, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reticle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elect. For points, the strongest plays are citer, creel, elect, erect, recit, recti, relic, telic, terce, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reticle produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lice, rice, tire, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are ceil, celt, cere, cert, cete, cire, cite, clit, crit, etic, lice, and rice — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reticle turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, let, lie, lit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, ice, rec, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reticle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, et, it, li, re, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in reticle 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.
reticle 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for reticle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
reticle is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reticle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reticle and tiercel, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reticle 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 reticle produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.