Hidden inside partisan sit aspirant, partisan, and spartina, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 266 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspirant, partisan, and spartina tie for the highest Scrabble score from partisan at 10 points. The top 10 of 266 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in partisan: two come from rearranging its letters, and partisan 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 aspirant, partisan, and spartina, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in partisan produces 14 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 parians, partans, pastina, patinas, pinatas, piranas, spartan, spirant, taipans, tarpans, and trapans, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling partisan turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paints, prints, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are paints, paisan, parian, partan, patina, patins, pinata, pintas, pirana, pranas, prints, ptisan, rapist, satrap, sprain, sprint, taipan, tapirs, tarpan, and trapan — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in partisan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, pains, paint, pairs, pants, parts, and pasta. For points, the strongest plays are apart, apian, ataps, atrip, inapt, napas, nipas, paans, pains, paint, pairs, paisa, pants, paras, paris, parts, pasta, patin, pians, pinas, pinta, pints, pirns, pitas, prana, prats, print, spait, spirt, sprat, sprit, stirp, strap, strip, tapas, tapir, tapis, tarps, traps, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in partisan produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, naps, pain, pair, and pans. For points, the strongest plays are atap, napa, naps, nipa, nips, paan, pain, pair, pans, pant, para, pars, part, past, pats, pian, pias, pina, pins, pint, pirn, pita, pits, prat, raps, rapt, rasp, rips, snap, snip, span, spar, spat, spin, spit, tapa, taps, tarp, tips, trap, and trip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling partisan turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, its, nap, pan, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are apt, asp, nap, nip, pan, par, pas, pat, pia, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rip, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in partisan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa 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 partisan 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.
partisan 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 partisan. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
partisan is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing partisan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspirant, partisan, and spartina, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from partisan 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 partisan produce 266 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.