Hidden inside precedent sit precedent and precented, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precedent and precented tie for the highest Scrabble score from precedent at 14 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in precedent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and precedent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are precedent and precented, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedent. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pretence, 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 precedent produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered, percent, and pretend. For points, the strongest plays 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 precedent turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, decent, deeper, recent, and rented. 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are creep, crepe, crept, and pence — 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 precedent produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, deep, deer, need, nerd, peed, and rent. 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 precedent turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, pee, pen, per, pet, and red. 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedent. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in precedent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in precedent and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
precedent 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 five senses for precedent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
precedent is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precedent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are precedent and precented, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from precedent 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 precedent produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.