precaution 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, 806 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precaution is the highest-scoring word from precaution, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 806 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in precaution — and it is precaution itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling precaution turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are autocrine, cautioner, cointreau, and recaution, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precaution. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction. For points, the strongest plays are apocrine, caponier, coparent, entropic, inceptor, operatic, outcaper, outprice, portance, pretonic, procaine, and unpoetic — 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 precaution produces 73 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auction, capture, certain, counter, curtain, picture, and routine. For points, the strongest plays are apnoeic, apricot, aprotic, cantrip, caprine, caption, capture, cuprite, ectopia, entopic, nepotic, outpace, paction, paeonic, paretic, parotic, patonce, picante, picrate, picture, porcine, pouncer, and puranic — 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 precaution turns up 146 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, carpet, carton, copier, erotic, nature, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are apercu, apneic, atopic, capote, captor, carpet, cartop, catnip, copier, copter, crepon, croupe, incept, pacier, pectin, picaro, pincer, poetic, pounce, prance, preact, precut, prince, puncta, recoup, teacup, toecap, tricep, and tropic — 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 198 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precaution. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer, ocean, opera, outer, paint, panic, and piano. For points, the strongest plays are optic, pacer, panic, pecan, picot, ponce, price, recap, caper, capon, capot, capri, caput, carpi, coapt, copen, coper, copra, coupe, crape, crept, cripe, croup, epact, topic, and uncap — 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 precaution produces 202 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, near, neat, nice, nope, and note. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pact, perc, pica, pice, puce, cape, capo, carp, cope, copi, coup, crap, crip, crop, 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 precaution turns up 127 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, ape, are, art, and ate. 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 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precaution. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and or. 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.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in precaution plus one additional letter.
precaution 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 4-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 precaution. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
precaution is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precaution unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is precaution, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from precaution 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 precaution produce 806 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 24 eight-letter words, 73 seven-letter words, 146 six-letter words, 198 five-letter words, 202 four-letter words, 127 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.