Hidden inside traceries sit careerist and traceries, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 399 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
careerist and traceries tie for the highest Scrabble score from traceries at 11 points. The top 10 of 399 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in traceries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and traceries 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 careerist and traceries, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traceries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterers. For points, the strongest plays are caterers, creasier, erratics, reciters, recrates, retraces, and terraces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in traceries produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers, carries, caterer, creates, retires, and scarier. For points, the strongest plays are atresic, careers, carries, carters, caterer, cerates, cerites, cirrate, craters, creaser, creates, cristae, ecartes, erratic, raciest, reciter, recites, recrate, retrace, scarier, stearic, terrace, tierces, and tracers — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling traceries turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, career, caters, create, easier, easter, and racist. For points, the strongest plays are career, carers, carets, caries, carter, cartes, caster, caters, cerate, cerias, cerise, cerite, certes, citers, crater, crates, crease, create, criers, crista, ecarte, erects, ericas, racers, racier, racist, reacts, recast, recite, recits, resect, ricers, scarer, secret, steric, terces, tierce, tracer, traces, triacs, and trices — 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 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traceries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts, cater, cease, cries, erase, and races. For points, the strongest plays are acres, areic, carer, cares, caret, carrs, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cease, ceres, ceria, certs, cesta, cesti, cetes, cires, citer, cites, crate, crest, crias, crier, cries, crits, erect, erica, escar, etics, racer, races, react, recit, recta, recti, ricer, rices, saice, scare, scart, scree, serac, taces, terce, trace, triac, 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 traceries produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, care, cars, cart, and case. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acts, arcs, asci, care, carr, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cees, cere, cert, cete, cire, cist, cite, cria, cris, crit, etic, ices, race, recs, rice, scar, scat, sect, sice, tace, tecs, and tics — 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 traceries turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, cee, cis, ice, rec, sac, sec, sic, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traceries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, re, si, ta, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in traceries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in traceries 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.
traceries 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.
traceries is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing traceries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are careerist and traceries, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from traceries 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 traceries produce 399 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.