petticoats needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 405 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
petticoats is the highest-scoring word from petticoats, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 405 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in petticoats — and it is petticoats itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling petticoats produces exactly one nine-letter word: petticoat. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petticoats. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ectopias, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in petticoats produces 24 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aseptic, capotes, ectopia and 6 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling petticoats turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attics, copies, and topics. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including copies, topics and apices.
There are 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petticoats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, capes and coast. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including capes, pacts and space.
Rearranging the letters in petticoats produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes and cape. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including cape, caps and cops.
Unscrambling petticoats turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and cep.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petticoats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including op, pa and pe.
petticoats 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 petticoats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
petticoats is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing petticoats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is petticoats, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from petticoats 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 petticoats produce 405 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.