Unscramble TIED and you have 20 words, TIED itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: DIET, DITE, EDIT and TIDE. Among the shorter answers, 6 reach 4 points, DIE, DIT and DEI among them. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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By length, the words from TIED split into 5 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of TIED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with TI · ending in ED · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to TIED:
What TIED means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
TIED works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 20) | 16 | 20 | 15 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
4 of the 20 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DEI, IDE, TID and DI. 1 of the 20 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: TE.
With one more tile, the letters of TIED spell the words below.