precarious needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 669 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precarious is the highest-scoring word from precarious, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 669 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in precarious — and it is precarious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling precarious turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acrospire and croupiers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precarious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with precious and superior. For points, the strongest plays are croupier, perisarc, precious, procures, sprucier, and supercar — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in precarious produces 62 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carries, copiers, repairs, and scarier. For points, the strongest plays are apercus, auspice, carpers, copiers, crisper, croupes, picaros, piceous, pricers, procure, prosaic, recoups, scarper, scauper, scraper, scrapie, spacier, and sprucer — 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 precarious turns up 127 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, copies, corpse, course, cruise, operas, and praise. For points, the strongest plays are apercu, apices, capers, capris, carper, carpus, copers, copier, copies, copras, corpse, corpus, coupes, crapes, cripes, croupe, croups, escarp, pacers, pacier, parsec, picaro, precis, pricer, prices, recaps, recoup, scopae, scrape, secpar, spacer, spicae, spicer, and spruce — 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 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precarious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, pairs, pause, pours, price, purer, and purse. For points, the strongest plays are pacer, paces, percs, picas, pisco, price, puces, recap, aspic, caper, capes, capos, capri, carpi, carps, coper, copes, copra, copse, corps, coupe, coups, crape, craps, cripe, crips, crisp, crops, croup, epics, scape, scarp, scaup, scopa, scope, scrap, scrip, sepic, space, spica, 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 precarious produces 163 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, ours, pair, peas, pies, and pose. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pacs, pecs, perc, pica, pice, pics, puce, scop, scup, spec, cape, capo, caps, carp, ceps, cope, copi, cops, coup, crap, crip, crop, cups, cusp, and epic — 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 precarious turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, cap, car, cop, and cue. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cop, cup, pac, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precarious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, or, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
precarious 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for precarious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
precarious is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precarious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is precarious, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from precarious 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 precarious produce 669 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 62 seven-letter words, 127 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 163 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.