Hidden inside teeter sit teeter and terete, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
teeter and terete tie for the highest Scrabble score from teeter at 6 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in teeter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and teeter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are teeter and terete, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in teeter produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tree. For points, the strongest plays are rete, tree, and tret — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling teeter turns up 5 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ere, ree, ret, tee, and tet, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teeter. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are er, et, re, and te, 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 teeter 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.
teeter 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 teeter carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for teeter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
teeter is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing teeter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are teeter and terete, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from teeter 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 teeter produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.