Unscramble PRETERITS to get 256 words. PRETERITS itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 11 points: PRETERIST. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PRETERITS by length: 2 with 9 letters, 3 with 8, 27 with 7, 52 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 39 with 3 and 13 with 2.
17 of 27 7-letter words from PRETERITS tie at 9 points; none scores more. RESPITE, REPRISE and RETIRES will look familiar.
52 6-letter words you get when you unscramble PRETERITS; 27 of them share the top score of 8. STREET, PRIEST and PETITE are everyday picks.
41 of 60 5-letter words from PRETERITS tie at 7 points; none scores more. PETER, STRIP and TRIPS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words in PRETERITS, 29 score 6 points, the group's best. SITE, TEST and TIPS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PRETERITS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PR · ending in TS · all 9-letter words
The meaning of PRETERITS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PRETERITS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRETERITS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 256) | 202 | 255 | 190 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
53 of the 256 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PRETERIST, PETTIES, PITTERS, EPRISE, ESPIER, PETRES, PETTIS, PIERST, PIERTS, PITTER, PRISER, RIPERS and 41 more. 12 of the 256 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SITREP, ETRIERS, PERES, ETRIER, PERE, TETRIS, PST, RESIT, TERES, EST, TES and TE. 1 of the 256 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 8 words take every letter of PRETERITS plus a single extra one.