Hidden inside trephines sit nephrites and trephines, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 416 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nephrites and trephines tie for the highest Scrabble score from trephines at 14 points. The top 10 of 416 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in trephines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trephines itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nephrites and trephines, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trephines. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are insphere, nephrite, and trephine, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trephines produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, neither, and present. For points, the strongest plays are hipster, prithee, and threeps — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling trephines turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with either, enters, entire, herpes, priest, prints, and resent. For points, the strongest plays are herpes, perish, pisher, reship, sphene, sphere, threep, and thrips — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 123 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trephines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, hints, hires, penes, penis, print, and rents. For points, the strongest plays are piths, sheep, thesp, and thrip — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trephines produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, pees, pens, pets, pies, and pins. For points, the strongest plays are pehs, phis, pish, pith, ship, heps, and hips — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling trephines turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her, hip, his, hit, its, and net. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hip, peh, phi, and pht — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trephines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in trephines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in trephines and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
trephines 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 two senses for trephines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
trephines is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trephines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nephrites and trephines, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trephines 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 trephines produce 416 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 123 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.