Hidden inside percolates sit percolates and prelocates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
percolates and prelocates tie for the highest Scrabble score from percolates at 14 points. The top 10 of 1140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in percolates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and percolates 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 percolates and prelocates, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling percolates turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pectorals, percolate, praelects, and prelocate, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percolates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clearest, operates, and replaces. For points, the strongest plays are caltrops, capelets, escalope, opalesce, parclose, pectoral, percales, polecats, postrace, praelect, prelects, replaces, sceptral, and spectral — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in percolates produces 123 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpets, cereals, coaster, creates, locates, operate, and patrols. For points, the strongest plays are caltrop, capelet, caplets, capotes, caprese, captors, carpels, carpets, clasper, copters, escalop, escaper, parcels, pectase, percale, placers, placets, plectra, polecat, preacts, precast, prelect, prosect, recepts, reclasp, replace, respace, respect, scalper, scepter, sceptre, specter, spectra, spectre, and toecaps — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling percolates turns up 228 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, alerts, alters, asleep, carpet, castle, and caters. For points, the strongest plays are aspect, capers, caplet, capote, capots, captor, carpel, carpet, cartop, claspt, clepes, coapts, copals, copers, copras, copter, corpse, crapes, creeps, crepes, epacts, escape, escarp, pacers, parcel, parsec, peaces, placer, places, placet, preact, recaps, recept, scopae, scrape, secpar, spacer, and toecap — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 324 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percolates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares, carts, cater, cease, claps, and clear. For points, the strongest plays are caper, capes, capos, capot, carps, cepes, claps, clapt, clasp, clepe, clept, clops, coapt, copal, coper, copes, copra, copse, corps, crape, craps, creep, crepe, crept, crops, pacer, paces, pacts, peace, percs, place, recap, scalp, scape, scarp, scopa, scope, scrap, space, spect, and epact — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in percolates produces 276 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, apes, arts, laps, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are pace, pacs, pact, pecs, perc, scop, spec, cape, capo, caps, carp, cepe, ceps, clap, clop, cope, cops, crap, and crop — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling percolates turns up 122 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape, are, art, ate, cap, and car. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, cop, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in percolates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
percolates 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 seven senses for percolates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
percolates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing percolates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are percolates and prelocates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from percolates 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 percolates produce 1140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 36 eight-letter words, 123 seven-letter words, 228 six-letter words, 324 five-letter words, 276 four-letter words, 122 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.