patronages needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 884 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patronages is the highest-scoring word from patronages, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 884 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in patronages — and it is patronages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patronages turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parsonage, patronage, and tragopans, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patronages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pageants. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including pageants, paragons and portages.
Rearranging the letters in patronages produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oranges, pageant and parents. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including pageant, apogean and gestapo.
Unscrambling patronages turns up 148 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers and grants. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including grapes, sponge and agapes.
There are 256 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patronages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and apart. For points, 23 words tie at 8 points, including pages, grape and agape.
Rearranging the letters in patronages produces 252 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and apes. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including page, gaps and pang.
Unscrambling patronages turns up 121 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patronages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
patronages 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 patronages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
patronages is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patronages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is patronages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from patronages 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 patronages produce 884 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 148 six-letter words, 256 five-letter words, 252 four-letter words, 121 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.