Hidden inside tarried sit tardier and tarried, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tardier and tarried tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarried at 8 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tarried: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tarried 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 tardier and tarried, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tarried turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retard. For points, the strongest plays are airted, arider, darter, raider, retard, ritard, tarred, tirade, and trader — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, drier, tired, trade, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aired, darer, dater, deair, derat, direr, drear, drier, irade, rared, rated, redia, rider, tared, tired, trade, tread, triad, and tried — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tarried produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, diet, dirt, edit, and idea. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, arid, dare, dart, date, dear, diet, dire, dirt, dita, dite, drat, edit, idea, ired, raid, read, ride, tide, tied, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tarried turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, art, ate, die, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are aid, die, dit, rad, red, rid, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 tarried 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.
tarried 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in tarried carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tarried is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tardier and tarried, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarried 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 tarried produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.