Hidden inside tergites sit grisette and tergites, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grisette and tergites tie for the highest Scrabble score from tergites at 9 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tergites: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tergites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grisette and tergites, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tergites produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are getters and tergite, 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 tergites turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greets, sitter, street, and tigers. For points, the strongest plays are egrets, getter, greets, regies, and tigers — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tergites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greet, steer, tiger, tires, trees, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are egers, egest, egret, geest, geste, girts, gites, grees, greet, grist, grits, reges, regie, serge, siege, tiger, and trigs — 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 tergites produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, rest, rigs, rise, site, stir, and test. For points, the strongest plays are eger, egis, ergs, gees, gest, gets, gies, girt, gist, gite, gits, gree, grit, regs, rigs, tegs, and trig — 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 tergites turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, its, rig, see, set, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are erg, gee, get, gie, gis, git, reg, rig, seg, sig, and teg — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tergites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 tergites and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tergites 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.
tergites is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tergites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grisette and tergites, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tergites 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 tergites produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.