Hidden inside tripos sit prosit, ripost, and tripos, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prosit, ripost, and tripos tie for the highest Scrabble score from tripos at 8 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in tripos: two come from rearranging its letters, and tripos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prosit, ripost, and tripos, 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tripos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with riots, sport, strip, and trips. For points, the strongest plays are ports, posit, prost, spirt, sport, sprit, stirp, strip, strop, topis, 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 tripos produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pits, post, pots, pros, riot, rips, and sort. For points, the strongest plays are opts, piso, pits, pois, port, post, pots, pros, rips, spit, spot, stop, tips, topi, tops, trip, and trop — 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 tripos turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pit, pot, pro, rip, sip, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are ops, opt, pis, pit, poi, pos, pot, pro, psi, pst, rip, sip, sop, tip, and top — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tripos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — 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 tripos 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.
tripos 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 one sense for tripos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tripos is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tripos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prosit, ripost, and tripos, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tripos 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 tripos produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.