preemption needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 339 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preemption is the highest-scoring word from preemption, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 339 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in preemption — and it is preemption itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preemption. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are orpiment and peperoni, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in preemption produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier. For points, the strongest plays are moppier, preempt, and propmen — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preemption turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, entire and mentor. For points, the strongest plays are mopper, moppet, and prompt — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preemption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, meter and minor. For points, the strongest play is primp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in preemption produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mine and mint. For points, the strongest plays are pimp and pomp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preemption turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and mop. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including mop, pop and imp.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preemption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and me. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in preemption plus one additional letter.
preemption 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 four senses for preemption. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
preemption is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preemption unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is preemption, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from preemption 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 preemption produce 339 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.