SCRTIDE is not a word, but unscramble SCRTIDE and 186 words appear: the best are CREDITS and DIRECTS at 10 points each. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SCRTIDE by length: 2 with 7 letters, 17 with 6, 55 with 5, 60 with 4, 38 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 55 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SCRTIDE, 13 score 8 points, the group's best. TRIED, CITED and TIRED are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words from SCRTIDE, the top score is 7, reached by 8. SITE, SIDE and EDIT are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SCRTIDE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with CR · ending in TS · all 7-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; CREDITS and DIRECTS (10 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
None of the three games accepts SCRTIDE itself. Its letters still make 186 playable words, split by game below.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCRTIDE itself | No | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 186) | 149 | 185 | 131 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 36 of them: DRICES, CIDES, DICTS, DRICE, TICED, CIDE, CIDS, CRISE, DICT, ERICS, ICERS, SERIC and 24 more. Words With Friends* skips 18 of them: CISTED, CREDS, RECITS, CERTS, CRED, CRITS, ETICS, RECIT, CERT, CRIT, TECS, DESI and 6 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ITER.
These 12 words take every letter of SCRTIDE plus a single extra one.