Hidden inside pressing sit pressing and springes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pressing and springes tie for the highest Scrabble score from pressing at 11 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pressing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pressing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pressing. For points, the strongest plays are pressing and springes — 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 pressing produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with singers and springs. For points, the strongest plays are pingers, springe, and springs — 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 pressing turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with singer, sirens, spines, and spring. For points, the strongest plays are genips, gripes, pinger, sprigs, and spring — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pressing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips, penis, press, rings, risen, rises, and signs. For points, the strongest plays are genip, gripe, grips, pings, prigs, 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 pressing produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, pens, pies, pigs, pins, reps, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are gips, grip, pegs, pigs, ping, and prig — 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 pressing turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pen, per, pie, pig, pin, rep, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are gip, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pressing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
Swap a single tile in pressing 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.
pressing 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for pressing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pressing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pressing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pressing and springes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pressing 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 pressing produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.