Hidden inside patricide sit patricide and pediatric, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 327 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patricide and pediatric tie for the highest Scrabble score from patricide at 14 points. The top 10 of 327 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in patricide: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patricide itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patricide and pediatric, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patricide. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is picrated, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in patricide produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with partied and predict. For points, the strongest plays are peracid and predict — 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 patricide turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, credit, diaper, direct, pirate, and pitied. For points, the strongest plays are adipic, carped, craped, depict, percid, priced, and redcap — 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patricide. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, aired, cared, cater, cried, price, and pride. For points, the strongest plays are caped and paced — 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 patricide produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, cape, card, care, cart, crap, and dare. For points, the strongest plays are cape, carp, crap, crip, epic, pace, pact, perc, pica, and pice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patricide turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, air, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patricide. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in patricide plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patricide and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
patricide 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for patricide. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
patricide is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patricide unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patricide and pediatric, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patricide 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 patricide produce 327 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.