Hidden inside presto sit poster, presto, repost and 5 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
poster, presto, repost and 2 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from presto at 8 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 8 six-letter words hiding in presto: seven come from rearranging its letters, and presto itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster. For points, the strongest plays are poster, presto, repost, repots, respot, stoper, topers, and tropes — each worth 8 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 presto. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, ropes, sport, and store. For points, the strongest plays are estop, pesto, poets, pores, ports, poser, prest, prose, prost, repos, repot, ropes, spore, sport, stope, strep, strop, toper, topes, and trope — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in presto produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, poet, pose, post, pots, pros, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, opts, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, repo, reps, rope, sept, spot, step, stop, tope, tops, and trop — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling presto turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet, pot, pro, rep, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, opt, per, pes, pet, pos, pot, pro, pst, rep, sop, and top — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in presto. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
50 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in presto plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in presto and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
presto 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 two senses for presto. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
presto is one of eight six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing presto unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are poster, presto, repost, repots, respot, stoper, topers, and tropes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from presto 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 presto produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 8 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.