precious needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 261 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precious is the highest-scoring word from precious, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 261 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in precious — and it is precious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in precious produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copiers. For points, the strongest plays are copiers, croupes, piceous, and recoups — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling precious turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, copies and corpse. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including copier, copies and corpse.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cries and cures. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including price, spice and coper.
Rearranging the letters in precious produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, core and cues. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including cops, cups and epic.
Unscrambling precious turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, cue and cup. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cop, cup and cep.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or and so. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including up, op and pe.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in precious plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in precious and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
precious 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 precious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
precious is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is precious, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from precious 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 precious produce 261 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.