patellae needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patellae is the highest-scoring word from patellae, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in patellae — and it is patellae itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patellae produces 2 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 paleate and patella, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patellae turns up 6 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, paleae and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patellae. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leapt and plate. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including leapt, plate and etape.
Rearranging the letters in patellae produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, leap and peel. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including leap, peel and tape.
Unscrambling patellae turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ape and ate. For points, 10 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 patellae. 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.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in patellae plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patellae 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.
patellae 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.
patellae is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patellae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is patellae, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from patellae 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 patellae produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.