Hidden inside patencies sit patencies and patiences, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 457 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patencies and patiences tie for the highest Scrabble score from patencies at 13 points. The top 10 of 457 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in patencies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patencies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patencies and patiences, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patience. For points, the strongest plays are patience, pectines, sapience, and speciate — 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 patencies produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with panties. For points, the strongest plays are aseptic, catnips, incepts, inscape, inspect, paciest, pectase, pectens, pectins, picante, and spicate — 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 patencies turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with escape, nicest, nieces, paints, panics, and pieces. For points, the strongest plays are apices, apiece, apneic, aspect, catnip, epacts, escape, incept, panics, peaces, pecans, pecten, pectin, pieces, septic, specie, spence, and spicae — 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 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cease, cents, eaten, niece, pacts, and pains. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capes, cepes, epact, epics, paces, pacts, panic, peace, pecan, pence, picas, piece, scape, sepic, space, spect, spica, and spice — 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 patencies produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, apes, naps, neat, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pacs, pact, pecs, pica, pice, pics, spec, cape, caps, cepe, ceps, and epic — 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 patencies turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ape, ate, can, cap, and cat. 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patencies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in patencies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patencies 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.
patencies 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 patencies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
patencies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patencies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patencies and patiences, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patencies 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 patencies produce 457 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.