Hidden inside penetrant sit penetrant and repentant, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 179 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
penetrant and repentant tie for the highest Scrabble score from penetrant at 11 points. The top 10 of 179 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in penetrant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and penetrant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are penetrant and repentant, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in penetrant produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pattern. For points, the strongest plays are pattern, pennate, pentane, and reptant — 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 penetrant turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neater, parent, and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are arpent, enrapt, entrap, epater, nepeta, paneer, panner, parent, patent, pattee, patten, patter, pennae, penner, petter, repeat, repent, retape, and trepan — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penetrant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are apter, arpen, etape, panne, paren, paten, pater, peart, penna, penne, perea, peter, prate, preen, taper, 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 penetrant produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, neat, part, rate, rent, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are aper, nape, neap, neep, pane, pant, pare, part, pate, pean, pear, peat, peen, peer, pent, pere, pert, prat, pree, rape, rapt, reap, tape, 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 penetrant turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, nap, pan, par, pat, pea, pee, pen, per, pet, rap, rep, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in penetrant. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in penetrant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in penetrant 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.
penetrant 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.
penetrant is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing penetrant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are penetrant and repentant, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from penetrant 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 penetrant produce 179 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.