Hidden inside priorities sit priorities and prioritise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 286 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
priorities and prioritise tie for the highest Scrabble score from priorities at 12 points. The top 10 of 286 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in priorities: one comes from rearranging its letters, and priorities itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with priorities. For points, the strongest plays are priorities and prioritise — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in priorities. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pierrots, priories, sportier, and stripier, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in priorities produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reports. For points, the strongest plays are pierrot, pitiers, porters, preriot, presort, pretors, prosier, prostie, reports, reposit, riposte, ropiest, spirier, sporter, striper, and tipsier — 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 priorities turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pities, poster, priest, report, spirit, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are espoir, esprit, periti, pitier, pities, poiser, porter, posier, poster, postie, potsie, presto, pretor, priers, priest, priors, proser, prosit, protei, report, repost, repots, repros, respot, ripest, ripost, ropers, ropier, sitrep, sopite, spirit, sprier, sprite, stoper, stripe, topers, tripes, tripos, and tropes — 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 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in priorities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, riots, ropes, sorer, sport, store, and strip. For points, the strongest plays are estop, peris, pesto, piers, piste, poets, poise, pores, ports, poser, posit, prest, prier, pries, prior, prise, prose, prost, repos, repot, repro, riper, ripes, roper, ropes, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spite, spore, sport, sprit, stipe, stirp, stope, strep, strip, strop, tipis, toper, topes, topis, tripe, trips, and trope — 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 priorities produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, pies, pits, poet, pose, post, and pots. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, opts, peri, pert, peso, pest, pets, pier, pies, piso, pits, poet, pois, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, sept, sipe, spit, spot, step, stop, tipi, tips, tope, topi, tops, trip, and trop — 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 priorities turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per, pet, pie, pit, pot, and pro. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, opt, per, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, poi, pos, pot, pro, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, sop, tip, and top — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in priorities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in priorities plus one additional letter.
priorities 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for priorities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
priorities is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing priorities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are priorities and prioritise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from priorities 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 priorities produce 286 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.