Hidden inside pretermit sit permitter, pretermit, and tripmeter, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
permitter, pretermit, and tripmeter tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretermit at 13 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in pretermit: two come from rearranging its letters, and pretermit itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are permitter, pretermit, and tripmeter, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretermit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prettier. For points, the strongest plays are preterit, prettier, remitter, and trimeter — 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 pretermit produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier and pettier. For points, the strongest plays are emptier, premier, preterm, pretrim, and tempter — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretermit turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, permit, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are empire, epimer, permit, premie, primer, and temper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretermit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter, prime, and tempt. For points, the strongest plays are prime, tempi, and tempt — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pretermit produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, temp, term, time, tire, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are perm, prim, and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretermit turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee, per, pet, pie, pit, and rep. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 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 pretermit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pretermit plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pretermit 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.
pretermit 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 2-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 pretermit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pretermit is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretermit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are permitter, pretermit, and tripmeter, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretermit 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 pretermit produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.