Hidden inside tracings sit scarting and tracings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 272 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scarting and tracings tie for the highest Scrabble score from tracings at 11 points. The top 10 of 272 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tracings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tracings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are scarting and tracings, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tracings produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casting, ratings, scaring, and staring. For points, the strongest plays are actings, arcings, carings, carting, casting, crating, gastric, racings, sacring, scaring, tracing, and tragics — 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 tracings turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, caring, cigars, giants, grants, racing, and racist. For points, the strongest plays are acting, arcing, caring, casing, cigars, 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 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tracings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carts, cigar, gains, giant, grant, rains, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cigar, crags, and scrag — 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 tracings produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, arts, cans, cars, and cart. For points, the strongest plays are cigs, crag, and scag — each 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 tracings turns up 53 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tracings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, 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 tracings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tracings 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 tracings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
tracings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tracings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are scarting and tracings, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tracings 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 tracings produce 272 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.