Hidden inside tried sit tired and tried, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tired and tried tie for the highest Scrabble score from tried at 6 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in tried: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: tired and tried, worth 6 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tried produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dirt, edit, ride, tied, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are diet, dire, dirt, dite, edit, ired, ride, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tried turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, red, rid, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are die, dit, red, rid, and ted — each worth 4 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 tried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — 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 tried 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.
tried 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 tried carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tried. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tried is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tired and tried, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tried 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 tried produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.