Hidden inside platitudes sit platitudes and stipulated, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 722 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
platitudes and stipulated tie for the highest Scrabble score from platitudes at 13 points. The top 10 of 722 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in platitudes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and platitudes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are platitudes and stipulated, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling platitudes turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aptitudes and platitude, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in platitudes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aptitude, plaudits, pulsated, splatted, stipuled, talipeds, and uptilted, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in platitudes produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with details and updates. For points, the strongest plays are alipeds, dispute, duplets, elapids, lapides, palsied, plaited, plastid, platted, plaudit, pleiads, puttied, spalted, spatted, spitted, stapled, taliped, and updates — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling platitudes turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adults, detail, duties, ladies, lasted, latest, and lattes. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, aliped, dispel, duplet, elapid, lapsed, lisped, padles, pasted, patted, paused, pedals, pitted, plaids, plated, pleads, pleiad, pulsed, putted, salpid, sliped, spiled, spited, stiped, stupid, update, and upside — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 202 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in platitudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with setup, slept, slide, spelt, spied, spilt, and split. For points, the strongest plays are sapid, siped, spade, spaed, spied, spued, taped, tepid, adept, dupes, duple, padis, padle, paled, pated, pedal, pedis, piled, plaid, plead, plied, pseud, and puled — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in platitudes produces 211 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, apes, lads, laid, laps, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are aped, padi, pads, paid, pedi, peds, pied, pled, puds, sped, spud, daps, deps, dips, dipt, dupe, and dups — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling platitudes turns up 109 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ape, ate, die, dip, and due. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, dup, pad, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in platitudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, is, it, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, pi, 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.
platitudes 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 one sense for platitudes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
platitudes is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing platitudes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are platitudes and stipulated, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from platitudes 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 platitudes produce 722 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 202 five-letter words, 211 four-letter words, 109 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.