Hidden inside pressed sit depress and pressed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depress and pressed tie for the highest Scrabble score from pressed at 10 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pressed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pressed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pressed. For points, the strongest plays are depress and pressed — 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 pressed turns up 5 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: speeds, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pressed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress, press, seeds, and speed. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, pedes, preed, and speed — 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 pressed produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, peed, pees, reps, seed, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, peds, peed, 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 pressed turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, red, rep, and see. For points, the strongest plays are dep 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pressed. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, 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 pressed 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.
pressed 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 pressed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pressed is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pressed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depress and pressed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pressed 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 pressed produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.