Hidden inside timecards sit mistraced and timecards, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 719 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mistraced and timecards tie for the highest Scrabble score from timecards at 14 points. The top 10 of 719 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in timecards: one comes from rearranging its letters, and timecards itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mistraced and timecards, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in timecards. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are misacted and timecard, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in timecards produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admires, credits, directs, and maestri. For points, the strongest plays are matrics, meticas, metrics, and sematic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling timecards turns up 120 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, admits and armies. For points, the strongest plays are dermic and medics — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 233 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in timecards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cards, cared and cares. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in timecards produces 202 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts and aids. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including came, cram and mice.
Unscrambling timecards turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and aid. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in timecards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in timecards plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in timecards and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
timecards 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 two senses for timecards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
timecards is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing timecards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mistraced and timecards, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from timecards 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 timecards produce 719 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 120 six-letter words, 233 five-letter words, 202 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.