Hidden inside patois sit patios and patois, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patios and patois tie for the highest Scrabble score from patois at 8 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in patois: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patois itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patios and patois, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patois. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patio, pitas, posit, psoai, spait, tapis, and topis, 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 patois produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with past, pits, post, pots, soap, spat, and spit. For points, the strongest plays are apos, atop, opas, opts, past, pats, pias, piso, pita, pits, pois, post, pots, soap, spat, spit, spot, stop, taps, tips, topi, and tops — 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 patois turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pit, pot, sat, sip, sit, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are apo, apt, asp, opa, ops, opt, pas, pat, pia, pis, pit, poi, pos, pot, psi, pst, sap, sip, sop, spa, tap, tip, and top — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patois. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, and po — 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 patois 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.
patois 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for patois. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
patois is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patois unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patios and patois, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patois 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 patois produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.