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.
Unscramble DTICKE, EDICKT or KITEDC and you get the same 6 letters as TICKED: so the words from TICKED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
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.
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.
Rearranging the letters in ticked produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deck, dice and dick. For points, the strongest plays are deck and dick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ticked plus one additional letter.
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.