Hidden inside patins sit paints, patins, pintas and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paints, patins, pintas and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from patins at 8 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in patins: three come from rearranging its letters, and patins itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paints. For points, the strongest plays are paints, patins, pintas, and ptisan — 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pains, paint, pants, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are inapt, nipas, pains, paint, pants, patin, pians, pinas, pinta, pints, pitas, spait, and tapis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in patins produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, naps, pain, pans, past, pins, and pits. For points, the strongest plays are naps, nipa, nips, pain, pans, pant, past, pats, pian, pias, pina, pins, pint, pita, pits, snap, snip, span, spat, spin, spit, taps, and tips — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patins turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, its, nap, pan, pin, pit, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are apt, asp, nap, nip, pan, pas, pat, pia, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa 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 patins 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.
patins 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.
patins is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paints, patins, pintas, and ptisan, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patins 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 patins produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.