Hidden inside pirate sit pirate and pratie, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pirate and pratie tie for the highest Scrabble score from pirate at 8 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pirate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pirate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pirate. For points, the strongest plays are pirate and pratie — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pirate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apter, atrip, pater, peart, pieta, prate, taper, tapir, and tripe, 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 pirate produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pair, part, rate, tape, tear, tire, and trap. For points, the strongest plays are aper, pair, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, peri, pert, pier, pita, prat, rape, rapt, reap, ripe, tape, tarp, tepa, 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 pirate turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, par, pat, pea, per, pet, pia, pie, pit, rap, rep, rip, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pirate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at 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.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pirate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pirate 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.
pirate 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for pirate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
pirate is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pirate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pirate and pratie, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pirate 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 pirate produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.