Hidden inside procedure sit procedure and reproduce, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
procedure and reproduce tie for the highest Scrabble score from procedure at 14 points. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in procedure: one comes from rearranging its letters, and procedure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with procedure. For points, the strongest plays are procedure and reproduce — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in procedure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with producer. For points, the strongest plays are precured, procured, producer, and recouped — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in procedure produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with produce and prouder. For points, the strongest plays are precode, proceed, and produce — 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.
Unscrambling procedure turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poured, record, and reduce. For points, the strongest plays are couped and creped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in procedure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cured, order, proud, purer, and ruder. For points, the strongest play is coped — 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 procedure produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord, core, cure, deep, deer, and drop. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, cope, coup, crop, perc, and puce — 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 procedure turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, cue, cup, due, our, pee, and per. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, cup, and pec — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in procedure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and up. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in procedure plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in procedure and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
procedure 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 four senses for procedure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
procedure is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing procedure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are procedure and reproduce, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from procedure 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 procedure produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.