precursory needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 301 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
precursory is the highest-scoring word from precursory, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 301 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in precursory — and it is precursory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling precursory turns up 2 nine-letter words. 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 precursory. 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 precursory produces 12 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 cursory, sorcery, and spurrey, 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 precursory turns up 48 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 coypus, croupy, cypres, cyprus, recopy, and sprucy — 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 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precursory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cures, curse, error, pours, purer, and purse. For points, the strongest plays are copsy, coypu, and crepy — 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 precursory produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, copy, core, cues, cups, cure, and ours. For points, the strongest play is copy — 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 precursory turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, cry, cue, cup, our, per, and pro. For points, the strongest plays are coy, cry, pry, pye, spy, yep, and yup — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in precursory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, so, up, us, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
precursory 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 one sense for precursory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
precursory is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing precursory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is precursory, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from precursory 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 precursory produce 301 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.