Hidden inside traces sit carets, cartes, caster and 5 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carets, cartes, caster and 2 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from traces at 8 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 8 six-letter words hiding in traces: seven come from rearranging its letters, and traces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters and reacts. For points, the strongest plays are carets, cartes, caster, caters, crates, reacts, recast, and traces — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, carts, cater, races, rates, react, and scare. For points, the strongest plays are acres, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, certs, cesta, crate, crest, escar, races, react, recta, scare, scart, serac, taces, and trace — 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 traces produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, care, cars, cart, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acts, arcs, care, cars, cart, case, cast, cate, cats, cert, race, recs, scar, scat, sect, tace, and tecs — 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 traces turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, rec, sac, sec, and tec — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
45 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in traces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in traces 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.
traces 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 fourteen senses for traces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
traces is one of eight six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing traces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carets, cartes, caster, caters, crates, reacts, recast, and traces, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from traces 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 traces produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 8 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.