Hidden inside scripted sit predicts and scripted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
predicts and scripted tie for the highest Scrabble score from scripted at 13 points. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in scripted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scripted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with predicts. For points, the strongest plays are predicts and scripted — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in scripted produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credits, directs, and predict. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including predict, crisped and depicts.
Unscrambling scripted turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct and driest. For points, the strongest plays are depict, percid, priced, and spiced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scripted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries and dices. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including price, spice and crept.
Rearranging the letters in scripted produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dice, dies and diet. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including epic, ceps and crip.
Unscrambling scripted turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scripted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in scripted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scripted 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.
scripted 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 one sense for scripted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
scripted is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scripted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are predicts and scripted, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scripted 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 scripted produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.