Hidden inside trice sit citer, recit, recti and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TERIC, CERIT or TECRI and you get the same 5 letters as TRICE: so the words from TRICE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
citer, recit, recti and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from trice at 7 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in trice: three come from rearranging its letters, and trice itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citer, recit, recti, and trice, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
22 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in trice plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in trice and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
trice 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 three senses for trice. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
trice is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trice unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are citer, recit, recti, and trice, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trice 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 trice produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.