Hidden inside pettan sit patent and patten, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PETTAN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PATENT and PATTEN.
patent and patten tie for the highest Scrabble score from pettan at 8 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pettan turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patent and patten, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pettan produces exactly one five-letter word: paten. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pettan produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neat, tape, and tent. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including tape, nape and neap.
Unscrambling pettan turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and ate. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pettan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pettan and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patent and patten, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pettan 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 pettan produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.