Hidden inside platters sit partlets, platters, prattles and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 345 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
partlets, platters, prattles and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from platters at 10 points. The top 10 of 345 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in platters: four come from rearranging its letters, and platters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with platters. For points, the strongest plays are partlets, platters, prattles, splatter, and sprattle — 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 platters produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with platter and startle. For points, the strongest plays are palters, partlet, patters, peltast, persalt, plaster, platers, platter, prattle, psalter, spatter, stapler, and tapster — 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 platters turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, latest, lattes, plates, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are aptest, lapser, palest, palets, palter, parles, pastel, paster, paters, patter, pearls, petals, plater, plates, pleats, prates, repast, septal, staple, tapers, tepals, and trapes — 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 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in platters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, laser, later, latte, leaps, and leapt. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, lepta, paler, pales, palet, pares, parle, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, peals, pearl, pears, peart, peats, pelts, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, rapes, reaps, salep, sepal, septa, slept, spale, spare, spate, spear, spelt, splat, sprat, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepal, tepas, traps, and trapt — 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 platters produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, laps, last, late, leap, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, lept, pale, pals, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, pelt, pert, pest, pets, plat, plea, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, salp, sept, slap, spae, 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 platters turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, pal, par, pas, pat, pea, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in platters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 platters 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.
platters 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 two senses for platters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
platters is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing platters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are partlets, platters, prattles, splatter, and sprattle, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from platters 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 platters produce 345 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.