Hidden inside tickers sit rickets, sticker, and tickers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rickets, sticker, and tickers tie for the highest Scrabble score from tickers at 13 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tickers: two come from rearranging its letters, and tickers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sticker. For points, the strongest plays are rickets, sticker, and tickers — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tickers turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sicker, strike, and tricks. For points, the strongest plays are ickers, sicker, strick, ticker, and tricks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tickers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, kites, rices, skirt, stick, ticks, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are icker, recks, ricks, stick, ticks, and trick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tickers produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, kite, kits, rest, rice, rise, and risk. For points, the strongest plays are icks, reck, rick, sick, and tick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tickers turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, kit, set, sir, sit, and ski. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tickers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is 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 tickers 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.
tickers 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for tickers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tickers is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tickers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rickets, sticker, and tickers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tickers 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 tickers produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.