predictor needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
predictor is the highest-scoring word from predictor, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in predictor — and it is predictor itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predictor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with director. For points, the strongest play is depictor — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in predictor produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with predict. For points, the strongest plays are percoid, picoted, predict, and ripcord — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling predictor turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copied, copier and credit. For points, the strongest plays are copied, depict, percid, and priced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predictor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, drier and order. For points, the strongest play is coped — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in predictor produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord and core. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including epic, cope and copi.
Unscrambling predictor turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, die and dip. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predictor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and it. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in predictor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in predictor 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.
predictor 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 three senses for predictor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
predictor is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predictor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is predictor, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from predictor 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 predictor produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.