Hidden inside troe sit rote and tore, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ORET, ETOR or ETRO and you get the same 4 letters as TROE: so the words from TROE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
TROE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ROTE and TORE.
rote and tore tie for the highest Scrabble score from troe at 4 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in troe produces 2 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tore. For points, the strongest plays are rote and tore — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
41 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in troe plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in troe and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rote and tore, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from troe 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 troe produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.