patronage needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 348 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patronage is the highest-scoring word from patronage, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 348 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in patronage — and it is patronage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patronage produces exactly one eight-letter word: tragopan. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patronage produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pageant. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including pageant, apogean and paragon.
Unscrambling patronage turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orange and parent. For points, the strongest plays are parang, parget, potage, and ragtop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patronage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and apart. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including grape, agape and gaper.
Rearranging the letters in patronage produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, earn and gate. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including page, gape and gorp.
Unscrambling patronage turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ant. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patronage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. 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 patronage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patronage 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.
patronage 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 seven senses for patronage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
patronage is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patronage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is patronage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from patronage 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 patronage produce 348 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.