precedes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precedes is the highest-scoring word from precedes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in precedes — and it is precedes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in precedes produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words 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 precedes turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creeps and deeper. 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers and speed. For points, the strongest plays are cepes, creep, crepe, and percs — 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 precedes produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, peed, pees, reps, and seed. 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 precedes turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, red, rep, and see. 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precedes. 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 precedes 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.
precedes 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 five senses for precedes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
precedes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precedes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is precedes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from precedes 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 precedes produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.