Hidden inside pretermits sit permitters, pretermits, and tripmeters, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 388 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
permitters, pretermits, and tripmeters tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretermits at 14 points. The top 10 of 388 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in pretermits: two come from rearranging its letters, and pretermits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are permitters, pretermits, and tripmeters, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretermits turns up 7 nine-letter words. 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 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretermits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptiest, merriest, and prettier. For points, the strongest plays are emptiers, emptiest, premiers, preterms, pretrims, simperer, and tempters — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pretermits produces 55 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires, emptier, permits, pettier, and retires. For points, the strongest plays are empires, emprise, emptier, empties, epimers, imprese, imprest, permits, premier, premies, premise, preterm, pretrim, primers, septime, spireme, tempers, tempest, 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 pretermits turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, meters, permit, priest, retire, sitter, and street. For points, the strongest plays are empire, epimer, permit, premie, primer, primes, sempre, simper, spirem, temper, and tempts — 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 94 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretermits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, meter, prime, sperm, steer, and strip. For points, the strongest plays are perms, prime, prims, prism, sperm, tempi, temps, 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 pretermits produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, pees, pets, pies, pits, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, perm, prim, simp, 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 pretermits turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, pee, per, pet, pie, and pit. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretermits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, 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.
pretermits 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 pretermits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pretermits is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretermits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are permitters, pretermits, and tripmeters, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretermits 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 pretermits produce 388 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 55 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 94 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.