56 words come out when you unscramble TACES, starting with TACES itself: 7 in Scrabble, 8 in Words With Friends. TACES has 4 anagrams here, CASTE, CATES, CESTA and SCEAT, scoring 7 like TACES itself. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from TACES split into 5 with 5 letters, 22 with 4, 20 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of TACES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with TA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
TACES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TACES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TACES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 56) | 49 | 56 | 42 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SCEAT, AESC, CEAS, TAES, EAS, EA and ST, 7 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TECS, TEC, TASE, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 7 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of TACES plus a single extra one.