Hidden inside precise sit piecers, pierces, precise and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
piecers, pierces, precise and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from precise at 11 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in precise: three come from rearranging its letters, and precise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recipes. For points, the strongest plays are piecers, pierces, precise, and recipes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling precise turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creeps, pieces, prices, and recipe. For points, the strongest plays are creeps, crepes, cripes, piecer, pieces, pierce, precis, prices, recipe, specie, and spicer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, piece, price, rices, and spice. For points, the strongest plays are cepes, creep, crepe, cripe, crips, crisp, epics, percs, piece, price, scrip, sepic, and spice — 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 precise produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, ices, pees, pies, reps, rice, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, ceps, crip, epic, pecs, perc, pice, pics, 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 precise turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, pee, per, pie, rep, rip, and see. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each 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 precise 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.
precise 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 2-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 precise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
precise is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are piecers, pierces, precise, and recipes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from precise 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 precise produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.