Hidden inside pateru sit uprate and uptear, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PATERU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to UPRATE and UPTEAR.
uprate and uptear tie for the highest Scrabble score from pateru at 8 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pateru turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are uprate and uptear, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pateru. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apter, erupt, pareu and 6 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pateru produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with part, pure and rate. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including part, pure and tape.
Unscrambling pateru turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pateru. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pateru plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pateru 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 uprate and uptear, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pateru 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 pateru produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.