Hidden inside trite sit tetri, titer, titre and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TTIER, TTREI or ERITT and you get the same 5 letters as TRITE: so the words from TRITE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
tetri, titer, titre and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from trite at 5 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in trite: three come from rearranging its letters, and trite 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 tetri, titer, titre, and trite, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
25 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in trite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in trite 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.
trite 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 trite carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for trite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
trite is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tetri, titer, titre, and trite, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trite 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 trite produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.