patroller needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 248 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patroller is the highest-scoring word from patroller, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 248 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in patroller — and it is patroller itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patroller produces exactly one eight-letter word: preallot. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patroller produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peroral, praetor, preoral and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patroller turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parlor, patrol and portal. For points, 23 words tie at 8 points, including parlor, patrol and portal.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patroller. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and later. For points, 32 words tie at 7 points, including leapt, opera and plate.
Rearranging the letters in patroller produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, leap and oral. For points, 40 words tie at 6 points, including leap, part and plot.
Unscrambling patroller turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ape and are. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patroller. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in patroller plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patroller 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.
patroller 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for patroller. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
patroller is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patroller unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is patroller, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from patroller 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 patroller produce 248 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.