precedents needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 375 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precedents is the highest-scoring word from precedents, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 375 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in precedents — and it is precedents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling precedents turns up 9 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presented and respected. For points, the strongest plays are precedent, precented, respected, and sceptered — 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 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percents, presence, pretends, and resented. For points, the strongest plays are precedes and sceptred — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in precedents produces 55 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, deepest, entered, percent, present, pretend, and respect. For points, the strongest plays are creeped, precede, and spected — 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 precedents turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, creeps, decent, deeper, desert, enters, and recent. 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, deers, enter, needs, nerds, penes, and rents. For points, the strongest plays are cepes, creep, crepe, crept, pence, percs, and spect — 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 precedents produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, deep, deer, ends, need, nerd, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, ceps, pecs, perc, and spec — 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 precedents turns up 38 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedents. 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 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in precedents plus one additional letter.
precedents 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 precedents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
precedents is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precedents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is precedents, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from precedents 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 precedents produce 375 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 55 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.