Hidden inside pincers sit crispen, pincers, and princes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crispen, pincers, and princes tie for the highest Scrabble score from pincers at 11 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in pincers: two come from rearranging its letters, and pincers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with princes. For points, the strongest plays are crispen, pincers, and princes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pincers turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prices and prince. For points, the strongest plays are cripes, pincer, precis, prices, prince, and spicer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pincers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, nicer, penis, price, rices, risen, and since. For points, the strongest plays are cripe, crips, crisp, epics, percs, price, scrip, sepic, and spice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pincers produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, ices, nice, pens, pies, pins, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are ceps, crip, epic, pecs, perc, pice, pics, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pincers turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, pen, per, pie, pin, rep, and rip. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pincers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in pincers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
pincers is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
pincers is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pincers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crispen, pincers, and princes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pincers earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in pincers produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.