Hidden inside tricks sit strick and tricks, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SICRKT, CSKIRT or SRICKT and you get the same 6 letters as TRICKS: so the words from TRICKS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
strick and tricks tie for the highest Scrabble score from tricks at 12 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tricks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tricks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tricks. For points, the strongest plays are strick and tricks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tricks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skirt, stick, ticks, and trick. For points, the strongest plays are ricks, stick, ticks, and trick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tricks produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kits, risk and sick. For points, the strongest plays are icks, rick, sick, and tick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tricks turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit and sir. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tricks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tricks and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tricks 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for tricks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
tricks is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tricks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strick and tricks, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tricks 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 tricks produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.