Hidden inside prince sit pincer and prince, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pincer and prince tie for the highest Scrabble score from prince at 10 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in prince: one comes from rearranging its letters, and prince itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prince. For points, the strongest plays are pincer and prince — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prince. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer and price. For points, the strongest plays are cripe and price — 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 prince produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, nice, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are crip, epic, perc, and pice — 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 prince turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, pen, per, pie, pin, rep, and rip. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prince. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. 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.
Swap a single tile in prince and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
prince 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for prince. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
prince is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prince unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pincer and prince, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prince 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 prince produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.