Hidden inside patters sit patters, spatter, and tapster, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patters, spatter, and tapster tie for the highest Scrabble score from patters at 9 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in patters: two come from rearranging its letters, and patters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patters, spatter, and tapster, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patters turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treats. For points, the strongest plays are aptest, paster, paters, patter, prates, repast, tapers, and trapes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, rates, spare, stare, start, state, and strap. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, pares, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, rapes, reaps, septa, spare, spate, spear, sprat, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepas, traps, and trapt — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in patters produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and part. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, pert, pest, pets, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, sept, spae, spar, spat, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, and trap — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling patters turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, and tap — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in patters and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
patters 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for patters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
patters is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patters, spatter, and tapster, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patters 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 patters produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.