Hidden inside presale sit leapers, pleaser, presale and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leapers, pleaser, presale and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from presale at 9 points. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in presale: four come from rearranging its letters, and presale itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leapers, pleaser, presale and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling presale turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep and please. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including asleep, please and elapse.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, laser and leaps. For points, 39 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, peels and sleep.
Rearranging the letters in presale produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and ease. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling presale turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presale. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in presale plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in presale and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
presale 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.
presale is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing presale unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leapers, pleaser, presale, relapse, and repeals, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from presale 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 presale produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.