Hidden inside tickler sit tickler and trickle, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tickler and trickle tie for the highest Scrabble score from tickler at 13 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tickler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tickler 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 tickler and trickle, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tickler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trick. For points, the strongest plays are clerk, icker, and trick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tickler produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kite, lice and lick. For points, the strongest plays are lick, reck, rick, and tick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tickler turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, kit and let. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tickler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tickler 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.
tickler 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for tickler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tickler is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tickler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tickler and trickle, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tickler 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 tickler produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.