Hidden inside tickles sit stickle and tickles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stickle and tickles tie for the highest Scrabble score from tickles at 13 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tickles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tickles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tickles. For points, the strongest plays are stickle and tickles — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tickles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kites, licks and likes. For points, the strongest plays are licks, slick, stick, and ticks — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tickles produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, kite and kits. For points, the strongest plays are icks, lick, sick, and tick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tickles turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its and kit. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tickles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tickles 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.
tickles 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 five senses for tickles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tickles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tickles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stickle and tickles, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tickles 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 tickles produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.