Hidden inside printer sit printer and reprint, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
printer and reprint tie for the highest Scrabble score from printer at 9 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in printer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and printer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with printer. For points, the strongest plays are printer and reprint — 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 printer produces exactly one six-letter word: pterin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in printer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with print. For points, the strongest plays are inept, prier, print, repin, ripen, riper, and tripe — 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 printer produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rent, tire, and trip. For points, the strongest plays are pein, pent, peri, pert, pier, pine, pint, pirn, ripe, 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 printer turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, pen, per, pet, pie, pin, and pit. For points, the strongest plays are nip, pen, per, pet, pie, pin, pit, rep, rip, 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 printer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in 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.
Swap a single tile in printer 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.
printer 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 three senses for printer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
printer is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing printer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are printer and reprint, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from printer 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 printer produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.