Unscramble TRICORNS and you have 181 words, TRICORNS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. 5 shorter words score 9, among them CISTRON, CITRONS and CORNIST. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from TRICORNS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 10 with 6, 52 with 5, 60 with 4, 39 with 3 and 14 with 2.
23 of 52 5-letter words you get when you unscramble TRICORNS tie at 7 points; none scores more. COINS, ICONS and INTRO will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from TRICORNS, 24 score 6 points, the group's best. COST, SORT and ICON are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of TRICORNS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with TR · ending in NS · all 8-letter words
TRICORNS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
TRICORNS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRICORNS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 181) | 135 | 180 | 126 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
46 of the 181 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CORNIST, TRONCS, COITS, CORNI, CRIOS, CRONS, CROST, RORIC, SIROC, TRONC, CITO, CITS and 34 more. 8 of the 181 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TORICS, CRITS, CORS, CRIT, ROSTI, SOC, TORRS and OI. 1 of the 181 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: INROS.
These 2 words take every letter of TRICORNS plus a single extra one.