Hidden inside traits sit artist, strait, strati and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artist, strait, strati and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from traits at 6 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in traits: three come from rearranging its letters, and traits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist. For points, the strongest plays are artist, strait, strati, and traits — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stair and start. For points, the strongest plays are airts, astir, sitar, stair, start, stria, tarsi, tarts, and trait — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in traits produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, rats, star, stat, stir, and tits. For points, the strongest plays are airs, airt, aits, arts, rais, rats, rias, sari, sati, star, stat, stir, tars, tart, tats, tits, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling traits turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, its, rat, sat, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, ait, ars, art, ats, att, its, rai, ras, rat, ria, sat, sir, sit, sri, tar, tas, tat, tis, and tit — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, 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.
Swap a single tile in traits 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.
traits 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in traits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for traits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
traits is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing traits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are artist, strait, strati, and traits, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from traits 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 traits produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.