TRIE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. TRIE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TRIE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TRIE is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 8.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TRIE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TRIE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in TRIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,009.
What stands out about TRIE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TRIE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A tree-shaped data structure that stores a set of strings so that words sharing the same beginning share the same path down the structure.
In a trie, each step down from the root adds one more letter, so every word that starts with the same letters travels along the same branch before splitting off, which makes searching for a whole word or a prefix very fast. Despite the spelling, the word trie is often pronounced the same as tree, from retrieval.
How TRIE is used
A specialist computer science term, used when describing how dictionaries, autocomplete tools and spell checkers store words efficiently.
- The spell checker stores every valid word in a trie for fast lookup.
- Searching a trie for a prefix takes far less time than scanning a plain list.
- Each node of the trie represents one more letter of the stored words.
- The programmer built a trie so the search box could suggest words as you type.
- Two words that share the first three letters share the same path in the trie.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TRIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TRIE
The 4 tiles of TRIE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with TRIE
Showing 24 of 28 words that begin with TRIE.
Words ending in TRIE
19 words end in TRIE. Useful as a back hook: play TRIE onto a word already on the board.
Words with TRIE inside
Showing 24 of 379 words that contain TRIE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TRIE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TRIE
Common questions about TRIE
- Is TRIE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TRIE is not in it.
- How many points is TRIE worth?
- TRIE is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TRIE mean?
- A tree-shaped data structure that stores a set of strings so that words sharing the same beginning share the same path down the structure.
- What letters can be added to TRIE?
- TRIE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of TRIE:
Open TRIE in the Word Finder