partridge needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 321 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
partridge is the highest-scoring word from partridge, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 321 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in partridge — and it is partridge itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling partridge produces exactly one eight-letter word: parridge. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in partridge produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with partied. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including partied, diptera and grapier.
Unscrambling partridge turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diaper, grader and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are griped and parged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in partridge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, drier and grade. For points, the strongest plays are gaped and paged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in partridge produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare and date. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including drip, grip and page.
Unscrambling partridge turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid and air. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including dip, gap and pad.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in partridge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in partridge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in partridge 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.
partridge 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 five senses for partridge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
partridge is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing partridge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is partridge, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from partridge 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 partridge produce 321 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.