Hidden inside pertained sit pertained and repainted, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 452 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pertained and repainted tie for the highest Scrabble score from pertained at 12 points. The top 10 of 452 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pertained: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pertained 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 pertained and repainted, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertained. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dipteran and parented, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pertained produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with painted, partied, pretend, printed, and trained. For points, the strongest plays are adepter, depaint, diptera, painted, pardine, partied, patined, pirated, predate, preedit, pretend, printed, repined, retaped, ripened, and tapered — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pertained turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diaper, earned, entire, neater, parent, pirate, and rained. For points, the strongest plays are depart, diaper, dipnet, pained, paired, pander, pandit, panted, pardee, pardie, parted, pedant, pedate, peined, pentad, perdie, petard, pinder, prated, reaped, redipt, repaid, repand, and trepid — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, diner, drain, eaten, enter, paint, and pride. For points, the strongest plays are adept, drape, dript, naped, padre, padri, paned, pardi, pared, pated, pined, preed, pride, pried, raped, rapid, redip, riped, taped, and tepid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pertained produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with near, neat, need, nerd, paid, pain, and pair. For points, the strongest plays are aped, padi, paid, pard, pedi, peed, pend, pied, deep, dipt, and drip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pertained turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, ape, are, and art. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pertained plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pertained 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.
pertained 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.
pertained is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertained unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pertained and repainted, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pertained 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 pertained produce 452 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.