progress needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
progress is the highest-scoring word from progress, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in progress — and it is progress itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in progress produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grosser. For points, the strongest play is gropers — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling progress turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are groper, gropes, and sprogs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gross, poses, press, ropes, roses, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are gorps, grope, progs, and sprog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in progress produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, pose, pros, reps, rope, and rose. For points, the strongest plays are gorp, pegs, and prog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling progress turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest play is peg — worth 6 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 progress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, 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.
Swap a single tile in progress 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.
progress 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 six senses for progress. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
progress is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing progress unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is progress, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from progress 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 progress produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.