Hidden inside paternally sit parentally, paternally, and prenatally, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 377 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parentally, paternally, and prenatally tie for the highest Scrabble score from paternally at 15 points. The top 10 of 377 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in paternally: two come from rearranging its letters, and paternally itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parentally, paternally, and prenatally, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paternally produces exactly one nine-letter word: planetary. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paternally. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tarnally, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in paternally produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penalty. For points, the strongest plays are apetaly, aplenty, peartly, penally, penalty, peytral, playlet, plenary, and pteryla — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paternally turns up 59 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lately, nearly, parent, planet, player, plenty, and really. For points, the strongest plays are napery, palely, paltry, pantry, parlay, parley, partly, pearly, peltry, pentyl, pertly, player, plenty, raptly, and replay — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paternally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alley, altar, alter, apart, early, and entry. For points, the strongest plays are apery, aptly, pally, panty, party, patly, payer, peaty, platy, playa, plyer, pyran, repay, reply, and typal — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in paternally produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, earn, lane, late, lean, leap, and lent. For points, the strongest plays are paly, paty, play, pray, prey, pyre, type, and yelp — 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 paternally turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ant, any, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are pay, ply, pry, pya, pye, yap, and yep — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paternally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in paternally plus one additional letter.
paternally 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 3-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 paternally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
paternally is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paternally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parentally, paternally, and prenatally, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paternally 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 paternally produce 377 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 59 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.