Hidden inside penetrance sit penetrance and repentance, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
penetrance and repentance tie for the highest Scrabble score from penetrance at 14 points. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in penetrance: one comes from rearranging its letters, and penetrance itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are penetrance and repentance, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling penetrance produces exactly one nine-letter word: perennate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penetrance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entrance. For points, the strongest plays are preenact, pretence, and tenpence — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in penetrance produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percent. For points, the strongest plays are penance, percent, and precent — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling penetrance turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, center and create. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including carpet, pecten and prance.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penetrance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, eaten and enter. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including peace, caper and crape.
Rearranging the letters in penetrance produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care and cart. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including cape, crap and pact.
Unscrambling penetrance turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ape. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penetrance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in penetrance plus one additional letter.
penetrance 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
penetrance is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing penetrance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are penetrance and repentance, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from penetrance 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 penetrance produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.