preterits needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 217 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preterits is the highest-scoring word from preterits, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 217 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in preterits — and it is preterits itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preterits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prettier. For points, the strongest plays are 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 preterits produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier and retires. For points, the strongest plays are perries, pertest, pestier, petites, petters, pettier, prester, pretest, prisere, reprise, respire, respite, spitter, 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 preterits turns up 39 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, perter, pester, peters, petite, petter, preset, priers, priest, ripest, septet, sitrep, sprier, sprite, stripe, stript, 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preterits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer, strip, tires, trees, tries, and trips. For points, the strongest plays are 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, 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 preterits produces 48 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 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 preterits 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 preterits. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in preterits plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in preterits and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
preterits 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 preterits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
preterits is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preterits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is preterits, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from preterits 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 preterits produce 217 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.