Hidden inside princess sit crispens and princess, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crispens and princess tie for the highest Scrabble score from princess at 12 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in princess: one comes from rearranging its letters, and princess itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with princess. For points, the strongest plays are crispens and princess — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in princess produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with princes. For points, the strongest plays are crispen, pincers, princes, and spicers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling princess turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, prices and prince. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including prices, prince and spices.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in princess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, nicer and penis. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including price, spice and cripe.
Rearranging the letters in princess produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, ices and nice. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including epic, ceps and crip.
Unscrambling princess turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, pen and per. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in princess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in princess plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in princess and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
princess 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 princess. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
princess is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing princess unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crispens and princess, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from princess 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 princess produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.