Hidden inside patents sit patents and pattens, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patents and pattens tie for the highest Scrabble score from patents at 9 points. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in patents: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patents and pattens, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patents 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 aptest, patens, 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.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pants, spent, state, tapes, taste, and tents. For points, the strongest plays are aspen, napes, neaps, panes, pants, paste, paten, pates, peans, peats, septa, sneap, spate, spean, spent, tapes, and tepas — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in patents produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, east, eats, naps, neat, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apse, nape, naps, neap, pane, pans, pant, pase, past, pate, pats, pean, peas, peat, pens, pent, pest, pets, sept, snap, spae, span, spat, step, tape, taps, 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 patents turns up 40 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, asp, nap, pan, pas, pat, pea, pen, pes, pet, pst, sap, spa, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, 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 patents 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.
patents 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 patents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
patents is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patents and pattens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patents 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 patents produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.