177 words come out when you unscramble TACTICITIES, starting with TACTICITIES itself: 15 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. ECSTATIC and CAECITIS are the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. The 11 letters split into 5 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from TACTICITIES by length: 1 with 11 letters, 1 with 9, 5 with 8, 14 with 7, 18 with 6, 29 with 5, 56 with 4, 39 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 10 letters.
There is a single one of the 9-letter words in TACTICITIES: STEATITIC, 11 points.
Of the 18 6-letter words you get when you unscramble TACTICITIES, 6 score 10 points, the group's best. CITIES, STATIC and TACTIC are the ones most people know.
Among the 5-letter words from TACTICITIES, CACTI, ICTIC and TICCA tie for first at 9 points. STATE, TASTE and ATTIC are everyday picks.
CECA tops the 4-letter words in TACTICITIES at 8 points; next come ACES and ACTS on 6. SITE, CASE and TEST will look familiar.
Keep every letter of TACTICITIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 11-letter words: starting with TA · ending in ES · all 11-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ECSTATIC (12 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts TACTICITIES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TACTICITIES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 177) | 138 | 177 | 130 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TACTICITIES, CAECITIS, ACCITES, CECITIS, ACCITE, ATTICISE, CISTIC, TICCA, TIETACS, SCEATT, TIETAC, SCEAT and 27 more, 39 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ETICS, TECS, TEC, TASE, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 8 in all.