Hidden inside transpierce sit carpentries and transpierce, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1404 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carpentries and transpierce tie for the highest Scrabble score from transpierce at 15 points. The top 10 of 1404 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in transpierce: one comes from rearranging its letters, and transpierce itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carpentries and transpierce, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in transpierce produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carpenters and interspace, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling transpierce turns up 35 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carpenter, epicentra, parceners, patencies, patiences, practiser, preenacts, prentices, prescient, recarpets, and reinspect, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 93 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transpierce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterers, increase, partners, patience, percents, printers, and receipts. For points, the strongest plays are cantrips, caperers, crepiest, crispate, parcener, paretics, patience, pectines, percents, perisarc, picrates, piercers, practise, prancers, precents, preciser, preenact, prentice, recarpet, receipts, reprices, rescript, sapience, scripter, speciate, and terpenic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in transpierce produces 229 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with careers, carpets, carries, caterer, centers, certain, and creates. For points, the strongest plays are aseptic, cantrip, caperer, caprese, caprine, carpers, carpets, catnips, crepier, crispen, crisper, escaper, incepts, inscape, inspect, paciest, paretic, pectase, pectens, pectins, percent, picante, picrate, piecers, piercer, pierces, pincers, prancer, prances, preacts, precast, precent, precise, prerace, pricers, princes, receipt, recepts, recipes, reprice, respace, respect, scarper, scepter, sceptre, scraper, scrapie, spacier, specter, spectra, spectre, spencer, spicate, and triceps — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling transpierce turns up 317 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praise, prices, priest, prince, prints, racist, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are prance, preact, precis, pricer, prices, prince, recaps, recept, recipe, apices, apiece, apneic, aspect, capers, capris, carper, carpet, catnip, crapes, creeps, crepes, cripes, epacts, escape, escarp, incept, pacers, pacier, panics, parsec, peaces, pecans, pecten, pectin, piecer, pieces, pierce, pincer, scrape, script, secpar, septic, spacer, specie, spence, spicae, spicer, and tricep — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 350 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transpierce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer, niece, pacts, pains, paint, pairs, and panic. For points, the strongest plays are pacer, paces, pacts, panic, peace, pecan, pence, percs, picas, piece, price, recap, scape, scarp, scrap, scrip, sepic, space, spect, spica, spice, aspic, caper, capes, capri, carpi, carps, cepes, crape, craps, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, crips, crisp, epact, and epics — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in transpierce produces 240 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, apes, arts, naps, and near. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pacs, pact, pecs, perc, pica, pice, pics, spec, cape, caps, carp, cepe, ceps, crap, crip, and epic — 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 transpierce turns up 113 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, pec, and pic — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transpierce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in transpierce plus one additional letter.
transpierce 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.
transpierce is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing transpierce unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carpentries and transpierce, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from transpierce 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 transpierce produce 1404 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 2 ten-letter words, 35 nine-letter words, 93 eight-letter words, 229 seven-letter words, 317 six-letter words, 350 five-letter words, 240 four-letter words, 113 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.