Hidden inside patented sit patented and pattened, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patented and pattened tie for the highest Scrabble score from patented at 11 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in patented: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patented itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patented and pattened, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patented produces exactly one seven-letter word: dentate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patented turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend and petted. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including petted, panted and patted.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patented. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten and taped. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including taped, adept and naped.
Rearranging the letters in patented produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deep and neat. For points, the strongest plays are aped, deep, peed, and pend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patented turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and ape. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patented. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in patented plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patented 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.
patented 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 one sense for patented. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
patented is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patented unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patented and pattened, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patented 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 patented produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 16 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.