Hidden inside pennate sit pennate and pentane, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pennate and pentane tie for the highest Scrabble score from pennate at 9 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pennate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pennate 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 pennate and pentane, 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 pennate turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nepeta and pennae, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pennate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten. For points, the strongest plays are etape, panne, paten, penna, and penne — 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 pennate produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neat, tape, and teen. For points, the strongest plays are nape, neap, neep, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, peen, pent, tape, and tepa — 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 pennate turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, ate, eat, nap, net, and pan. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, nap, pan, pat, pea, pee, pen, pet, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pennate. 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.
Swap a single tile in pennate 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.
pennate 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 one sense for pennate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pennate is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pennate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pennate and pentane, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pennate 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 pennate produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.