preeminent needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 196 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preeminent is the highest-scoring word from preeminent, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 196 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in preeminent — and it is preeminent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preeminent produces exactly one nine-letter word: nemertine. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preeminent. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are internee and retinene, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in preeminent produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier and teenier. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including emptier, epimere and preemie.
Unscrambling preeminent turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, entire, intern, and permit. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including empire, permit and epimer.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preeminent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, inner and meter. For points, the strongest plays are prime and tempi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in preeminent produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet and mine. For points, the strongest plays are perm, prim, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preeminent turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and net. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preeminent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in preeminent plus one additional letter.
preeminent 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 4-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 preeminent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
preeminent is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preeminent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is preeminent, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from preeminent 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 preeminent produce 196 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.