Hidden inside precede sit creeped and precede, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
creeped and precede tie for the highest Scrabble score from precede at 12 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in precede: one comes from rearranging its letters, and precede itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are creeped and precede, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling precede turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper. For points, the strongest play is creped — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precede. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are creep and crepe, 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 precede produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, and peed. For points, the strongest plays are cepe and perc — 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 precede turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, red, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are cep and pec — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precede. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, 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 precede 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.
precede 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for precede. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
precede is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precede unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are creeped and precede, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from precede 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 precede produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.