Hidden inside paltered sit paltered and replated, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 258 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paltered and replated tie for the highest Scrabble score from paltered at 11 points. The top 10 of 258 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in paltered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and paltered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paltered and replated, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in paltered produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered and related. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including adepter, pearled and pedaler.
Unscrambling paltered turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer, leader and leaped. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including leaped, depart and larped.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paltered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and dealt. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including taped, adept and drape.
Rearranging the letters in paltered produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and deal. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and aped.
Unscrambling paltered turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paltered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in paltered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in paltered and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
paltered 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.
paltered is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paltered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paltered and replated, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paltered 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 paltered produce 258 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.