Unscramble TRIPWIRES to get 225 words. TRIPWIRES itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are TRIPWIRE and TWIRPIER, 13 points each. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from TRIPWIRES by length: 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 8, 10 with 7, 34 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 42 with 3 and 14 with 2.
34 6-letter words you get when you unscramble TRIPWIRES; 5 of them share the top score of 11. SPIRIT, WRITER and WRITES are everyday picks.
Among 60 5-letter words from TRIPWIRES, the top score is 10, reached by 8. WRITE, STRIP and TRIPS are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 4-letter words from TRIPWIRES, 5 score 9 points, the group's best. WEST, TIPS and STEP are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of TRIPWIRES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with TR · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
TRIPWIRES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TRIPWIRES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRIPWIRES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 225) | 178 | 224 | 168 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 46 of them: TWIRPIER, SWIPIER, SPREW, SWEIRT, TRIPIER, TWIRES, WERRIS, PIERIS, PIERST, PIERTS, PRISER, RIPERS and 34 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: SWIPER, WRISTER, PERITI, SITREP, EW, PST, RESIT, EST, TES and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of TRIPWIRES spell the words below.