Hidden inside palterer sit palterer and prealter, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palterer and prealter tie for the highest Scrabble score from palterer at 10 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in palterer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and palterer 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 palterer and prealter, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in palterer produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pearler, pearter, petrale and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling palterer turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relate and repeat. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including repeat, epater and larper.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palterer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and later. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including leapt, plate and apter.
Rearranging the letters in palterer produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, leap and part. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including leap, part and peel.
Unscrambling palterer turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palterer. 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.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in palterer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in palterer 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.
palterer 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.
palterer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing palterer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palterer and prealter, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from palterer 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 palterer produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.