tragic needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tragic is the highest-scoring word from tragic, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in tragic — and it is tragic itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tragic produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart. For points, the strongest play is crag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tragic turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and art. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tragic plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tragic 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.
tragic 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for tragic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tragic is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tragic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tragic, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tragic 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 tragic produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.