Hidden inside priests sit esprits, persist, priests and 5 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
esprits, persist, priests and 2 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from priests at 9 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 8 seven-letter words hiding in priests: seven come from rearranging its letters, and priests itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priests and stripes. For points, the strongest plays are esprits, persist, priests, sitreps, spriest, sprites, stirpes, and stripes — 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 priests turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priest, resist, sister, stripe, and strips. For points, the strongest plays are esprit, pisser, pistes, prests, priest, prises, ripest, sitrep, speirs, spiers, spires, spirts, spites, sprite, sprits, stipes, stirps, streps, stripe, strips, 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in priests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, rests, rises, sites, spies, spits, and steps. For points, the strongest plays are peris, pests, piers, piste, press, prest, pries, prise, priss, ripes, septs, sipes, speir, spier, spies, spire, spirt, spite, spits, sprit, steps, 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 priests produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies, pits, psst, reps, rest, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are peri, pert, pest, pets, pier, pies, piss, pits, psis, psst, reps, ripe, rips, seps, sept, sipe, sips, 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 priests turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per, pet, pie, pit, rep, and rip. For points, the strongest plays are 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 priests. 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.
24 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in priests plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in priests and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
priests 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 two senses for priests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
priests is one of eight seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing priests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are esprits, persist, priests, sitreps, spriest, sprites, stirpes, and stripes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from priests 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 priests produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 8 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.