Hidden inside presides sit despiser, disperse, and presides, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
despiser, disperse, and presides tie for the highest Scrabble score from presides at 11 points. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in presides: two come from rearranging its letters, and presides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are despiser, disperse, and presides, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in presides produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires, pressed, and spiders. For points, the strongest plays are depress, despise, preside, pressed, prissed, speired, spiders, and spiered — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling presides turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, prides, series, speeds, and spider. For points, the strongest plays are espied, peised, perdie, pissed, prides, prised, redips, speeds, spider, and spired — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress, dries, drips, press, pride, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, drips, pedes, pedis, preed, pride, pried, redip, riped, siped, speed, and spied — 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 presides produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, dies, dips, drip, peed, and pees. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, dips, drip, pedi, peds, peed, pied, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling presides turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ids, pee, per, pie, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in presides and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
presides 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 1-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 presides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
presides is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing presides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are despiser, disperse, and presides, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from presides 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 presides produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.