Hidden inside petal sit leapt, lepta, palet and 4 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leapt, lepta, palet and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from petal at 7 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 five-letter words hiding in petal: six come from rearranging its letters, and petal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leapt and plate. For points, the strongest plays are leapt, lepta, palet, petal, plate, pleat, and tepal — 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 petal produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, leap, tale, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are leap, lept, pale, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, tape, and tepa — 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 petal turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, lap, let, pal, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, lap, pal, pat, pea, pet, and tap — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 petal and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
petal 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 one sense for petal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
petal is one of seven five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing petal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leapt, lepta, palet, petal, plate, pleat, and tepal, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from petal 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 petal produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.