Hidden inside pertains sit painters, pantries, pertains and 3 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 552 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
painters, pantries, pertains and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from pertains at 10 points. The top 10 of 552 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 eight-letter words hiding in pertains: five come from rearranging its letters, and pertains itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are painters, pantries, pertains, pinaster, pristane, and repaints, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pertains produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastier, panties, parents, parties, and pirates. For points, the strongest plays are arpents, entraps, painter, paniers, panties, parents, parties, pastern, pastier, patines, pertain, piaster, piastre, pirates, praties, pterins, rapines, repaint, sapient, spinate, spirant, traipse, and trepans — 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 pertains turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paints, parent, pirate, praise, priest, prints, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are arpens, arpent, aspire, enrapt, entrap, esprit, instep, paints, panier, pantie, parens, parent, paries, paster, pastie, patens, paters, patine, patins, petsai, pietas, pineta, pintas, pirate, praise, prates, pratie, priest, prints, pterin, ptisan, rapine, rapist, repast, repins, ripens, ripest, sitrep, sniper, spinet, spirea, sprain, sprent, sprint, sprite, stripe, tapers, tapirs, trapes, trepan, and tripes — 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 168 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pains, paint, pairs, pants, parts, penis, and print. For points, the strongest plays are napes, neaps, nipas, pains, paint, pairs, paise, panes, pants, paren, pares, paris, parse, parts, paste, paten, pater, pates, patin, peans, pears, peart, peats, peins, penis, peris, pians, piers, pieta, pinas, pines, pinta, pints, pirns, piste, pitas, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, pries, print, prise, rapes, reaps, repin, ripen, ripes, apers, apres, apter, arpen, aspen, asper, atrip, inapt, inept, sepia, septa, sneap, snipe, spait, spare, spate, spean, spear, speir, spent, spier, spine, spire, spirt, spite, sprat, sprit, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepas, traps, tripe, and trips — 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 pertains produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, apes, arts, naps, near, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, nape, naps, neap, nipa, nips, pain, pair, pane, pans, pant, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pean, pear, peas, peat, pein, pens, pent, peri, pert, pest, pets, pian, pias, pier, pies, pina, pine, pins, pint, pirn, pita, pits, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, sept, sipe, snap, snip, spae, span, spar, spat, spin, spit, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tips, 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 pertains turns up 86 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, asp, nap, nip, pan, par, pas, pat, pea, pen, per, pes, pet, pia, pie, pin, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pertains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, 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.
23 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in pertains plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pertains and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
pertains 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 pertains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pertains is one of six eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pertains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are painters, pantries, pertains, pinaster, pristane, and repaints, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pertains 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 pertains produce 552 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 168 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.