Hidden inside tracing sit carting, crating, and tracing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carting, crating, and tracing tie for the highest Scrabble score from tracing at 10 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tracing: two come from rearranging its letters, and tracing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carting, crating, and tracing, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tracing turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, caring, racing, rating, and tragic. For points, the strongest plays are acting, arcing, caring, racing, and tragic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tracing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigar, giant, grant, and train. For points, the strongest plays are acing and cigar — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tracing produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, gain, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest play is crag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tracing turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, art, can, car, and cat. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tracing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tracing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tracing 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for tracing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tracing is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tracing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carting, crating, and tracing, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tracing 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 tracing produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.