progresses needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
progresses is the highest-scoring word from progresses, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in progresses — and it is progresses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with espresso and progress. For points, the strongest play is progress — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in progresses produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grosser and presses. For points, the strongest play is gropers — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling progresses turns up 26 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, repegs, and sprogs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gross, poses and press. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gorps, grope and progs.
Rearranging the letters in progresses produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes and pees. For points, the strongest plays are gorp, pegs, and prog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling progresses turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gee and pee. For points, the strongest play is peg — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progresses. 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.
progresses 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 progresses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
progresses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing progresses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is progresses, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from progresses 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 progresses produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.