Hidden inside partisans sit aspirants, partisans, and spartinas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 345 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspirants, partisans, and spartinas tie for the highest Scrabble score from partisans at 11 points. The top 10 of 345 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in partisans: two come from rearranging its letters, and partisans 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 aspirants, partisans, and spartinas, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in partisans. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aspirant, partisan, pastinas and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in partisans produces 27 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 paisans, parians, partans and 16 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling partisans turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paints, pastas and prints. For points, 30 words tie at 8 points, including paints, pastas and prints.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in partisans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, pains and paint. For points, 52 words tie at 7 points, including apart, pains and paint.
Rearranging the letters in partisans produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 49 words tie at 6 points, including naps, pain and pair.
Unscrambling partisans turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including nap, pan and pin.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in partisans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in partisans 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.
partisans 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 four senses for partisans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
partisans is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing partisans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspirants, partisans, and spartinas, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from partisans 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 partisans produce 345 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.