Hidden inside paltering sit paltering and replating, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 571 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paltering and replating tie for the highest Scrabble score from paltering at 12 points. The top 10 of 571 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in paltering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and paltering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paltering and replating, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paltering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, relating, and triangle. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including grapline, pearling and pleating.
Rearranging the letters in paltering produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaping, plainer, and tearing. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including leaping, graplin and grapnel.
Unscrambling paltering turns up 89 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, parent and pirate. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including taping, graple and paling.
There are 136 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paltering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alert and alien. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including grape, aping and gaper.
Rearranging the letters in paltering produces 163 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, late and lean. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including page, grip and pang.
Unscrambling paltering turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paltering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in paltering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in paltering and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
paltering 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for paltering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
paltering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paltering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paltering and replating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paltering 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 paltering produce 571 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 89 six-letter words, 136 five-letter words, 163 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.