Hidden inside presiding sit presiding and spidering, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 310 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
presiding and spidering tie for the highest Scrabble score from presiding at 13 points. The top 10 of 310 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in presiding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and presiding itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are presiding and spidering, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presiding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inspired. For points, the strongest play is springed — 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 presiding produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inspire. For points, the strongest plays are gipsied, pidgins, and priding — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling presiding turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, diners, grinds, inside, prides, riding, and rising. For points, the strongest plays are griped, pidgin, and pinged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presiding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, dines, dries, drips, genii, grind, and grips. For points, the strongest plays are drips, genip, gripe, grips, pedis, pends, piing, pined, pings, pride, pried, prigs, redip, riped, siped, spend, spied, and sprig — 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 presiding produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, dine, dips, drip, ends, and grip. For points, the strongest plays are deps, dips, drip, gips, grip, pedi, peds, pegs, pend, pied, pigs, ping, prig, 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 presiding turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dip, end, ids, pen, and per. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, gip, ped, peg, and pig — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presiding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in presiding plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in presiding and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
presiding 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.
presiding is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing presiding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are presiding and spidering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from presiding 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 presiding produce 310 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.