Hidden inside precursor sit precursor and procurers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precursor and procurers tie for the highest Scrabble score from precursor at 13 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in precursor: one comes from rearranging its letters, and precursor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are precursor and procurers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precursor. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are procurer and procures, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in precursor produces 9 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 croupes, procure, recoups, and sprucer, 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 precursor turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corpse, course, errors, source, and sourer. For points, the strongest plays are copers, corpse, corpus, coupes, croupe, croups, recoup, and spruce — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precursor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cures, curse, error, pours, purer, and purse. For points, the strongest plays are coper, copes, copse, corps, coupe, coups, crops, croup, percs, puces, and scope — 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 precursor produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, core, cues, cups, cure, ours, and pose. For points, the strongest plays are ceps, cope, cops, coup, crop, cups, cusp, pecs, perc, puce, scop, scup, 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 precursor turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, cue, cup, our, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, cup, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precursor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in precursor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in precursor and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
precursor 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 three senses for precursor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
precursor is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precursor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are precursor and procurers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from precursor 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 precursor produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.