Hidden inside patere sit epater, repeat, and retape, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PATERE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EPATER, REPEAT and RETAPE.
epater, repeat, and retape tie for the highest Scrabble score from patere at 8 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling patere turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat. For points, the strongest plays are epater, repeat, and retape — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patere. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apter, etape, pater and 5 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patere produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with part, rate and tape. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including part, tape and trap.
Unscrambling patere turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and pee.
19 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in patere plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patere 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epater, repeat, and retape, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patere 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 patere produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.