Hidden inside tierce sit cerite, recite, and tierce, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cerite, recite, and tierce tie for the highest Scrabble score from tierce at 8 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in tierce: two come from rearranging its letters, and tierce itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cerite, recite, and tierce, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tierce. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citer, erect, recit, recti, terce, and trice, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tierce produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rice, tire, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are cere, cert, cete, cire, cite, crit, etic, and rice — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tierce turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice and tie. For points, the strongest plays are cee, ice, rec, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tierce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it. For points, the strongest plays are er, et, it, re, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 tierce 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.
tierce 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 tierce. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tierce is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tierce unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cerite, recite, and tierce, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tierce 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 tierce produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.