Hidden inside petulant sit patulent and petulant, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patulent and petulant tie for the highest Scrabble score from petulant at 10 points. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in petulant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and petulant 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 patulent and petulant, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling petulant turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peanut, planet, and talent. For points, the strongest plays are patent, patten, peanut, penult, planet, and platen — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petulant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latte, leapt, plane, plant, and plate. For points, the strongest plays are leapt, lepta, letup, palet, panel, paten, pelau, penal, petal, plane, plant, plate, pleat, plena, taupe, tepal, ulpan, and unapt — 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 petulant produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, lane, late, lean, leap, lent, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are leap, lept, nape, neap, pale, pane, pant, pate, peal, pean, peat, pelt, pent, plan, plat, plea, pula, pule, puna, punt, putt, 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 petulant turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, ate, eat, lap, let, and nap. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, lap, nap, pal, pan, pat, pea, pen, pet, pul, pun, put, tap, and tup — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petulant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — 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 petulant 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.
petulant 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 4-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 petulant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
petulant is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing petulant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patulent and petulant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from petulant 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 petulant produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.