Hidden inside titer sit tetri, titer, titre and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tetri, titer, titre and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from titer at 5 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in titer: three come from rearranging its letters, and titer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tetri, titer, titre, and trite, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
25 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in titer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in titer 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.
titer 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in titer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for titer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
titer is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing titer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tetri, titer, titre, and trite, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from titer 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 titer produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.