Hidden inside predecessor sit predecessor and reprocessed, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 407 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
predecessor and reprocessed tie for the highest Scrabble score from predecessor at 16 points. The top 10 of 407 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in predecessor: one comes from rearranging its letters, and predecessor 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 predecessor and reprocessed, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling predecessor produces exactly one ten-letter word: proceeders. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling predecessor turns up 12 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with processed. For points, the strongest plays are precessed, prescored, proceeder, and processed — 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 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predecessor. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are precedes, precodes, and proceeds, 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 predecessor produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corpses, crossed, dresser, pressed, process, and records. For points, the strongest plays are creeped, precede, precode, and proceed — 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 predecessor turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corpse, creeps, deeper, orders, recess, record, and scored. For points, the strongest plays are creped and scoped — 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 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predecessor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cords, cores, cross, deers, dress, and drops. 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 predecessor produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cops, cord, core, deep, deer, and does. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, ceps, cope, cops, crop, pecs, perc, scop, and spec — 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 predecessor turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, pee, per, pro, red, rep, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predecessor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, 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.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in predecessor plus one additional letter.
predecessor 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 two senses for predecessor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
predecessor is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predecessor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are predecessor and reprocessed, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from predecessor 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 predecessor produce 407 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 1 ten-letter word, 12 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.