Hidden inside precept sit percept and precept, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percept and precept tie for the highest Scrabble score from precept at 13 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in precept: one comes from rearranging its letters, and precept 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 percept and precept, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling precept produces exactly one six-letter word: recept. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precept. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are creep, crepe, and crept, 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 precept produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tree. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, peep, perc, perp, prep, and repp — 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 precept turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, pet, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pep — 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 precept. 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 precept 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.
precept 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 two senses for precept. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
precept is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precept unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are percept and precept, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from precept 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 precept produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.