Hidden inside preys sit preys and pyres, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
preys and pyres tie for the highest Scrabble score from preys at 10 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in preys: one comes from rearranging its letters, and preys itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are preys and pyres, 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 preys produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reps. For points, the strongest plays are espy, prey, pyes, pyre, spry, and yeps — 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 preys turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, rep, spy, yep, and yes. For points, the strongest plays are pry, pye, spy, and yep — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in preys. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in preys and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
preys 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in preys carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for preys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
preys is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing preys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are preys and pyres, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from preys 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 preys produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.