patterned 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, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patterned is the highest-scoring word from patterned, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in patterned — and it is patterned itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patterned. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parented, patented, pattened, and pattered, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patterned produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pattern, pretend, and treated. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including pretend, adepter and predate.
Unscrambling patterned turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, earned and neater. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including petted, depart and pander.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patterned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter and taped. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including taped, adept and drape.
Rearranging the letters in patterned produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and aped.
Unscrambling patterned turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and ape. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patterned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in patterned plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patterned 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.
patterned 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 one sense for patterned. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
patterned is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patterned unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is patterned, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from patterned 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 patterned produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.