Hidden inside perborates sit perborates and reprobates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 652 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perborates and reprobates tie for the highest Scrabble score from perborates at 14 points. The top 10 of 652 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in perborates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and perborates 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 perborates and reprobates, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perborates turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perborate and reprobate, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perborates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operates. For points, the strongest plays are probates and reprobes — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perborates produces 52 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operate, repeats and reports. For points, the strongest plays are probate, probers, reprobe, and saprobe — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perborates turns up 114 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, arrest and barest. For points, the strongest plays are prober, probes, and rebops — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 171 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perborates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, barer and bears. For points, the strongest plays are beeps, probe, probs, and rebop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perborates produces 178 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and bare. For points, the strongest plays are baps, beep, bops, and prob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perborates turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perborates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
perborates 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.
perborates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perborates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are perborates and reprobates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from perborates 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 perborates produce 652 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 52 seven-letter words, 114 six-letter words, 171 five-letter words, 178 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.