Hidden inside planters sit planters and replants, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 438 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
planters and replants tie for the highest Scrabble score from planters at 10 points. The top 10 of 438 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in planters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and planters 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 planters and replants, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in planters produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parents and planets. For points, the strongest plays are arpents, entraps, palters, parents, pastern, persalt, planers, planets, planter, plaster, platens, platers, psalter, replans, replant, stapler, and trepans — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling planters turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, learns, parent, planes, planet, and plants. For points, the strongest plays are arpens, arpent, enrapt, entrap, lapser, palest, palets, palter, panels, parens, parent, parles, pastel, paster, patens, paters, pearls, petals, planer, planes, planet, plants, platen, plater, plates, pleats, prates, repast, replan, septal, splent, sprent, staple, tapers, tepals, trapes, and trepan — 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 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in planters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, earns, lanes, laser, later, and leans. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, arpen, aspen, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, lepta, napes, neaps, paler, pales, palet, panel, panes, pants, paren, pares, parle, parse, parts, paste, paten, pater, pates, peals, peans, pearl, pears, peart, peats, pelts, penal, petal, plane, plans, plant, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plena, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, rapes, reaps, salep, sepal, septa, slept, sneap, spale, spare, spate, spean, spear, spelt, spent, splat, sprat, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepal, tepas, and traps — 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 planters produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, arts, lane, laps, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, lept, nape, naps, neap, pale, pals, pane, pans, pant, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pean, pear, peas, peat, pelt, pens, pent, pert, pest, pets, plan, plat, plea, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, salp, sept, slap, snap, spae, span, spar, spat, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, and trap — 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 planters turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, nap, pal, pan, par, pas, pat, pea, pen, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in planters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and 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 planters 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.
planters 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for planters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
planters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing planters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are planters and replants, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from planters 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 planters produce 438 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.