Hidden inside ticks sit stick and ticks, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stick and ticks tie for the highest Scrabble score from ticks at 11 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ticks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ticks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: stick and ticks, worth 11 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ticks produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kits, sick, and tick. For points, the strongest plays are icks, 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 ticks turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ticks. 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 ticks and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
ticks 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 eight senses for ticks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ticks is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ticks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stick and ticks, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ticks 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 ticks produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.