Hidden inside palette sit palette and peltate, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palette and peltate tie for the highest Scrabble score from palette at 9 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in palette: one comes from rearranging its letters, and palette 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 palette and peltate, 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 palette turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pattee and pettle, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palette. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latte, leapt, and plate. For points, the strongest plays are etape, leapt, lepta, palet, petal, plate, pleat, and tepal — 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 palette produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, leap, peel, tale, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are leap, lept, pale, pate, peal, peat, peel, pele, pelt, plat, plea, tape, and tepa — 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 palette turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, lap, let, pal, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, lap, pal, pat, pea, pee, pet, and tap — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palette. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each 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 palette 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.
palette 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 three senses for palette. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
palette is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing palette unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palette and peltate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from palette 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 palette produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.