Hidden inside patricides sit patricides and pediatrics, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 876 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patricides and pediatrics tie for the highest Scrabble score from patricides at 15 points. The top 10 of 876 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in patricides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patricides itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patricides and pediatrics, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patricides turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crispated, patricide, pediatric, and practised, 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 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patricides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with predicts. For points, the strongest plays are adscript, peracids, picrated, predicts, scripted, and spicated — each 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 patricides produces 84 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpets, credits, dairies, diapers, diaries, directs, and partied. For points, the strongest plays are crisped, depicts, discept, peracid, percids, predict, redcaps, scarped, and scraped — 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 patricides turns up 165 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, caters, cities, credit, diaper, direct, and driest. For points, the strongest plays are adipic, capsid, carped, craped, depict, percid, priced, redcap, scaped, spaced, and spiced — 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 263 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patricides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cards, cared, cares, carts, cater, and craps. 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 patricides produces 208 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, airs, apes, arts, and cape. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, carp, ceps, crap, crip, epic, pace, pacs, pact, pecs, perc, pica, pice, pics, and spec — 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 patricides turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, air, ape, are, and art. 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patricides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in patricides plus one additional letter.
patricides 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 patricides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
patricides is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patricides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patricides and pediatrics, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patricides 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 patricides produce 876 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 84 seven-letter words, 165 six-letter words, 263 five-letter words, 208 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.