Hidden inside tertus sit truest and utters, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TERTUS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TRUEST and UTTERS.
truest and utters tie for the highest Scrabble score from tertus at 6 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tertus turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with truest. For points, the strongest plays are truest and utters — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tertus produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, sure, test, and true. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including rest, sure and test.
Unscrambling tertus turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set, sue, and use. For points, 15 words tie at 3 points, including set, sue and use.
24 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tertus plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tertus 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are truest and utters, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tertus 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 tertus produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.