Hidden inside primaries sit impairers and primaries, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 280 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impairers and primaries tie for the highest Scrabble score from primaries at 13 points. The top 10 of 280 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in primaries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and primaries 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 impairers and primaries, 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 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in primaries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is impairer, 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 primaries produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with marries and repairs. For points, the strongest plays are impairs, imperia, impresa, pismire, prearms, primers, and primsie — 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 primaries turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, praise, repair, and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are impair, prearm, primas, primer, primes, remaps, simper, and spirem — 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 70 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in primaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, prime, raise, ramps, spare, and sperm. For points, the strongest plays are impis, perms, pimas, prams, prima, prime, primi, prims, prism, ramps, remap, and sperm — 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 primaries produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, apes, arms, ears, eras, and maps. For points, the strongest plays are amps, impi, imps, maps, mips, pams, perm, pima, pram, prim, ramp, samp, simp, and spam — 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 primaries turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ape, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in primaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in primaries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in primaries 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.
primaries 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 eight senses for primaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
primaries is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing primaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impairers and primaries, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from primaries 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 primaries produce 280 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 70 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.