Hidden inside patent sit patent and patten, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patent and patten tie for the highest Scrabble score from patent at 8 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in patent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patent and patten, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling patent produces exactly one five-letter word: paten. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patent produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neat, tape, and tent. For points, the strongest plays are nape, neap, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pent, tape, and tepa — 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 patent turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, ate, eat, nap, net, and pan. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, nap, pan, pat, pea, pen, pet, and tap — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 patent and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
patent 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 seven senses for patent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
patent is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patent and patten, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patent 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 patent produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.