Hidden inside predicates sit pederastic and predicates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1099 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pederastic and predicates tie for the highest Scrabble score from predicates at 15 points. The top 10 of 1099 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in predicates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and predicates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pederastic and predicates, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling predicates turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crispated, depicters, practised, predicate, and speciated, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with predicts, readiest, receipts, and steadier. For points, the strongest plays are adscript, carpeted, decrepit, depicter, escarped, peracids, picrated, preacted, precised, precited, predicts, respaced, sceptred, scripted, and spicated — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in predicates produces 129 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpets, catered, created, creates, credits, dearest, and despite. For points, the strongest plays are capered, crisped, depicts, discept, escaped, peracid, percids, pierced, predict, redcaps, scarped, scraped, and spected — 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 predicates turns up 233 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, caters, ceased, create, credit, creeps, and desert. For points, the strongest plays are capsid, carped, craped, creped, depict, peaced, percid, pieced, priced, redcap, scaped, spaced, and spiced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 322 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cards, cared, cares, carts, cater, and cease. For points, the strongest plays are caped and paced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in predicates produces 234 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, airs, apes, arts, and cape. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, carp, cepe, ceps, crap, crip, epic, pace, pacs, pact, pecs, perc, pica, 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 predicates turns up 108 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, air, ape, are, and art. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predicates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in predicates plus one additional letter.
predicates 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 predicates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
predicates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predicates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pederastic and predicates, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from predicates 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 predicates produce 1099 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 42 eight-letter words, 129 seven-letter words, 233 six-letter words, 322 five-letter words, 234 four-letter words, 108 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.