Hidden inside pertain sit painter, pertain, and repaint, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
painter, pertain, and repaint tie for the highest Scrabble score from pertain at 9 points. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in pertain: two come from rearranging its letters, and pertain 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 painter, pertain, and repaint, 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 pertain turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are arpent, enrapt, entrap, panier, pantie, parent, patine, pineta, pirate, pratie, pterin, rapine, 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paint, print, and train. For points, the strongest plays are apter, arpen, atrip, inapt, inept, paint, paren, paten, pater, patin, peart, pieta, pinta, prate, print, repin, ripen, taper, tapir, and tripe — 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 pertain produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, neat, pain, pair, part, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are aper, nape, neap, nipa, pain, pair, pane, pant, pare, part, pate, pean, pear, peat, pein, pent, peri, pert, pian, pier, pina, pine, pint, pirn, pita, prat, rape, rapt, reap, ripe, tape, tarp, tepa, trap, and trip — 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 pertain turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, ape, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, nap, nip, pan, par, pat, pea, pen, per, pet, pia, pie, pin, pit, rap, rep, rip, tap, and tip — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — 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 pertain 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.
pertain 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for pertain. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pertain is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertain unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are painter, pertain, and repaint, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pertain 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 pertain produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.