precedence needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precedence is the highest-scoring word from precedence, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in precedence — and it is precedence itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedence. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is credence, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in precedence produces 4 valid seven-letter words. 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.
Unscrambling precedence turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper. For points, the strongest plays are creped and recced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedence. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are creep, crepe, pence, and recce, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in precedence produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and need. For points, the strongest plays are cepe and perc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling precedence turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, pee and pen. For points, the strongest plays are cep and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedence. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in precedence plus one additional letter.
precedence 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 precedence. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
precedence is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precedence unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is precedence, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from precedence 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 precedence produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.