Hidden inside triples sit resplit and triples, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resplit and triples tie for the highest Scrabble score from triples at 9 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in triples: one comes from rearranging its letters, and triples itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resplit and triples, 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 triples turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, stripe, and triple. For points, the strongest plays are esprit, lisper, perils, pliers, priest, ripest, sitrep, sprite, stipel, stripe, tripes, and triple — 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with piles, slept, spelt, spilt, split, strip, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are pelts, peril, peris, piers, piles, piste, plier, plies, prest, pries, prise, ripes, slept, slipe, slipt, speil, speir, spelt, spiel, spier, spile, spilt, spire, spirt, spite, split, sprit, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tripe, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in triples produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies, lips, list, pets, pies, and pile. For points, the strongest plays are lept, lipe, lips, lisp, pelt, peri, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, pile, pits, plie, reps, ripe, rips, sept, sipe, slip, spit, step, tips, and trip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling triples turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lip, lit, per, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are lip, per, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, and tip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 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 triples and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
triples 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 seven senses for triples. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
triples is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing triples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resplit and triples, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from triples 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 triples produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.