preempting 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, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preempting is the highest-scoring word from preempting, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in preempting — and it is preempting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preempting 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 repigment and tempering, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preempting. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metering, petering, and regiment, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in preempting produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier and meeting. For points, the strongest play is preempt — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preempting turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, entire, peeing, and permit. For points, the strongest plays are emping, gipper, grippe, and pigpen — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preempting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green and greet. For points, the strongest play is primp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in preempting produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, germ and grip. For points, the strongest play is pimp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preempting turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and men. For points, the strongest plays are imp, pep, and pip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preempting. 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.
preempting 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
preempting is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preempting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is preempting, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from preempting 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 preempting produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.