ternary needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ternary is the highest-scoring word from ternary, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ternary — and it is ternary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ternary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entry. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including entry, retry and tarry.
Rearranging the letters in ternary produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near and neat. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including tray, year and aery.
Unscrambling ternary turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and are. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including any, aye and try.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ternary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ternary plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ternary 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.
ternary 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 ternary carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for ternary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ternary is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ternary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ternary, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ternary 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 ternary produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.