tailraces needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 562 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tailraces is the highest-scoring word from tailraces, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 562 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tailraces — and it is tailraces itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailraces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with articles and recitals. For points, the strongest plays are articles, recitals, sterical, and tailrace — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tailraces produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, recital, and saltier. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including article, recital and acetals.
Unscrambling tailraces turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars and alters. For points, 53 words tie at 8 points, including castle, caters and clears.
There are 165 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailraces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and altar. For points, 68 words tie at 7 points, including cares, carts and cater.
Rearranging the letters in tailraces produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and area. For points, 46 words tie at 6 points, including acts, lice and race.
Unscrambling tailraces turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and are. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailraces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tailraces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tailraces and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
tailraces 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 tailraces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tailraces is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tailraces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tailraces, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tailraces 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 tailraces produce 562 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 165 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.