Hidden inside particle sit particle and prelatic, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 316 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
particle and prelatic tie for the highest Scrabble score from particle at 12 points. The top 10 of 316 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in particle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and particle itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with particle. For points, the strongest plays are particle and prelatic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in particle produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article and recital. For points, the strongest plays are caliper, paretic, picrate, plectra, plicate, and replica — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling particle turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, pirate, and triple. For points, the strongest plays are caplet, carpel, carpet, epical, pacier, parcel, placer, placet, plaice, plicae, preact, and tricep — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in particle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, cater, clear, later, leapt, and place. For points, the strongest plays are caper, capri, carpi, clapt, clept, clipt, crape, crept, cripe, epact, pacer, pical, place, plica, price, and recap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in particle produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care, cart, clap, clip, crap, and epic. For points, the strongest plays are cape, carp, clap, clip, crap, crip, epic, pace, pact, perc, pica, and pice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling particle turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ape, are, art, ate, and cap. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in particle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — 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 particle 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.
particle 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 3-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 particle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
particle is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing particle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are particle and prelatic, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from particle 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 particle produce 316 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.