Hidden inside pretest sit pertest, petters, and pretest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertest, petters, and pretest tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretest at 9 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in pretest: two come from rearranging its letters, and pretest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pertest, petters, and pretest, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretest turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with street. For points, the strongest plays are pester, peters, petter, preset, and septet — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer and trees. For points, the strongest plays are peers, peres, perse, peter, prees, prese, prest, speer, spree, steep, and strep — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pretest produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pets, reps, rest, step, test, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are peer, pees, pere, pert, pest, pets, pree, reps, seep, sept, and step — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretest turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, pet, rep, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are pee, per, pes, pet, pst, and rep — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretest. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, 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 pretest and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
pretest 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
pretest is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pertest, petters, and pretest, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretest 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 pretest produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.