patella needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patella is the highest-scoring word from patella, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in patella — and it is patella itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patella turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paella, palate, paleal, and pallet, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patella. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leapt and plate. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including leapt, plate and lapel.
Rearranging the letters in patella produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, leap and tale. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including leap, tape and atap.
Unscrambling patella turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ape and ate. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patella. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in patella plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patella and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
patella 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 two senses for patella. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
patella is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patella unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is patella, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from patella 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 patella produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.