preterites needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preterites is the highest-scoring word from preterites, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in preterites — and it is preterites itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling preterites turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are preterite and preterits, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preterites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prettier. For points, the strongest plays are pesterer, preterit, prettier, and pretties — 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 preterites produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier and retires. For points, the strongest plays are epeeist, peeries, perries, pertest, pestier, petites, petters, pettier, prester, pretest, prisere, reprise, respire, respite, seepier, spitter, steeper, striper, and tipster — 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 preterites turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, retire, sitter, street, stripe, and stript. For points, the strongest plays are esprit, peerie, perter, pester, peters, petite, petter, preset, priers, priest, ripest, septet, sitrep, sprier, sprite, stripe, stript, tepees, and tripes — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preterites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer, strip, tires, trees, tries, and trips. For points, the strongest plays are epees, peers, peise, peres, peris, perse, peter, petit, petti, piers, piste, prees, prese, prest, prier, pries, prise, riper, ripes, speer, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spite, spree, sprit, steep, stipe, stirp, strep, strip, tepee, tripe, and trips — 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 preterites produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pets, pies, pits, reps, rest, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are epee, peer, pees, pere, peri, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, pits, pree, reps, ripe, rips, seep, sept, sipe, spit, step, tips, and trip — 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 preterites turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pee, per, pet, pie, pit, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, and tip — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preterites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. 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.
preterites 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 preterites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
preterites is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preterites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is preterites, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from preterites 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 preterites produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.