Hidden inside prints sit prints and sprint, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prints and sprint tie for the highest Scrabble score from prints at 8 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in prints: one comes from rearranging its letters, and prints itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prints. For points, the strongest plays are prints and sprint — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prints. If a familiar word is all you need, start with print, strip, and trips. For points, the strongest plays are pints, pirns, print, spirt, sprit, stirp, strip, 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 prints produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pins, pits, rips, spin, spit, stir, and tins. For points, the strongest plays are nips, pins, pint, pirn, pits, rips, snip, spin, spit, 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 prints turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pin, pit, rip, sin, sip, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are nip, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prints. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is pi — 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 prints 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.
prints 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 eleven senses for prints. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
prints is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prints unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prints and sprint, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prints 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 prints produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.