Hidden inside tories sit sortie, tories, and triose, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sortie, tories, and triose tie for the highest Scrabble score from tories at 6 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in tories: two come from rearranging its letters, and tories 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 sortie, tories, and triose, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with riots, store, tires, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are osier, resit, riots, rites, roset, rosti, rotes, rotis, store, tiers, tires, tiros, tores, torse, torsi, tries, trios, and trois — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tories produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, riot, rise, rose, site, sore, and sort. For points, the strongest plays are eros, erst, ires, ores, orts, reis, rest, rets, riot, rise, rite, roes, rose, rote, roti, rots, sire, site, sore, sori, sort, stir, tier, ties, tire, tiro, toes, tore, tori, tors, tres, and trio — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tories turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set, sir, sit, tie, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are ers, est, ire, its, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, rei, res, ret, roe, rot, sei, ser, set, sir, sit, sot, sri, tes, tie, tis, toe, and tor — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tories. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
39 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tories plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tories 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.
tories 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 tories carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for tories. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tories is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tories unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sortie, tories, and triose, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tories 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 tories produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.