Hidden inside patined sit depaint, painted, and patined, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depaint, painted, and patined tie for the highest Scrabble score from patined at 10 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in patined: two come from rearranging its letters, and patined itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with painted. For points, the strongest plays are depaint, painted, and patined — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patined turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dipnet, pained, pandit, panted, pedant, and pentad, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patined. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paint and taped. For points, the strongest plays are adept, naped, paned, pated, pined, taped, and tepid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in patined produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet, dine, edit, idea, neat, and paid. For points, the strongest plays are aped, dipt, padi, paid, pedi, pend, and pied — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patined turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, ant, ape, ate, die, and dip. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, pad, and ped — each worth 6 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 patined. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — 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 patined 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.
patined 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.
patined is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patined unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depaint, painted, and patined, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patined 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 patined produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.