Hidden inside pretaste sit peartest and pretaste, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 274 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peartest and pretaste tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretaste at 10 points. The top 10 of 274 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pretaste: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pretaste itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peartest and pretaste, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pretaste produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeats. For points, the strongest plays are epaters, patters, pertest, petters, pretest, repeats, retapes, septate, spatter, and tapster — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretaste turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, estate, repeat, street, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are aptest, epater, etapes, paster, paters, pattee, patter, peseta, pester, peters, petter, prates, preset, repast, repeat, retape, septet, serape, tapers, and trapes — 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 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, parts, rates, spare, stare, start, and state. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, etape, pares, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, pease, peats, peers, perea, peres, perse, peter, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, prest, rapes, reaps, septa, spare, spate, spear, speer, sprat, spree, steep, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepas, traps, and trapt — 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 pretaste produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, ears, ease, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peer, pees, pere, pert, pest, pets, prat, pree, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, seep, sept, spae, spar, spat, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, and trap — 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 pretaste turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, pee, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, and tap — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 pretaste 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.
pretaste 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.
pretaste is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretaste unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peartest and pretaste, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretaste 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 pretaste produce 274 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.