Hidden inside terrier sit retirer and terrier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retirer and terrier tie for the highest Scrabble score from terrier at 7 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in terrier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and terrier 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 retirer and terrier, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling terrier turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retire. For points, the strongest plays are etrier and retire — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in terrier. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retie and trier, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in terrier produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tire and tree. For points, the strongest plays are rete, rite, tier, tire, and tree — 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 terrier turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tie. For points, the strongest plays are ere, err, ire, ree, rei, ret, tee, and tie — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in terrier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it. For points, the strongest plays are er, et, it, re, te, and ti — 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 terrier 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.
terrier 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 terrier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for terrier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
terrier is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing terrier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retirer and terrier, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from terrier 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 terrier produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.