Hidden inside pretesting sit presetting and pretesting, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 527 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
presetting and pretesting tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretesting at 13 points. The top 10 of 527 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in pretesting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pretesting 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 presetting and pretesting, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pretesting turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pestering, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interest and steering. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including petering, pettings and prestige.
Rearranging the letters in pretesting produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, pettier and petting. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including petting, peering and pingers.
Unscrambling pretesting turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and greets. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including peeing, spring and genips.
There are 148 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, genes and green. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including grips, genip and gripe.
Rearranging the letters in pretesting produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and pees. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including pigs, grip and pegs.
Unscrambling pretesting turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and its. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pretesting plus one additional letter.
pretesting 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
pretesting is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretesting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are presetting and pretesting, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretesting 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 pretesting produce 527 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 148 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.