Hidden inside patern sit arpent, enrapt, entrap and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PATERN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARPENT, ENRAPT, ENTRAP, PARENT and TREPAN.
arpent, enrapt, entrap and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from patern at 8 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling patern turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including parent, arpent and enrapt.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patern. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apter, arpen, paren and 5 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patern produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near and neat. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including part, tape and trap.
Unscrambling patern turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and are. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patern. 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.
Swap a single tile in patern 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 arpent, enrapt, entrap, parent, and trepan, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patern 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 patern produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.