Hidden inside presages sit asperges and presages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperges and presages tie for the highest Scrabble score from presages at 11 points. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in presages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and presages 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 asperges and presages, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in presages produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greases. For points, the strongest plays are gaspers, presage, and sparges — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling presages turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, erases and grapes. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including grapes, gapers and gasper.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, eases and erase. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including grape, pages and gaper.
Rearranging the letters in presages produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes and ears. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including gaps, page and gape.
Unscrambling presages turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape and are. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in presages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in presages 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.
presages 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for presages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
presages is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing presages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asperges and presages, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from presages 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 presages produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.