Hidden inside ticked sit detick and ticked, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detick and ticked tie for the highest Scrabble score from ticked at 13 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ticked: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ticked itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ticked. For points, the strongest plays are detick and ticked — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ticked. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kited, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ticked produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deck, dice, dick, diet, edit, kite, and tick. For points, the strongest plays are deck and dick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ticked turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice, kid, kit, and tie. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ticked. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 ticked 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.
ticked 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.
ticked is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ticked unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detick and ticked, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ticked 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 ticked produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.