preferment 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, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preferment is the highest-scoring word from preferment, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in preferment — and it is preferment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preferment produces exactly one nine-letter word: fermenter. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preferment. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retemper and temperer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in preferment produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ferment and freemen, 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 preferment turns up 18 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: prefer, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preferment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, freer, meter, and refer. For points, the strongest plays are freer, frere, and refer — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in preferment produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feet, free, meet, rent, teen, temp, and term. For points, the strongest play is feme — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling preferment turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, men, met, net, pee, pen, and per. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preferment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are ef and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in preferment plus one additional letter.
preferment 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for preferment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
preferment is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preferment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is preferment, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from preferment 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 preferment produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.