Hidden inside portals sit patrols and portals, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patrols and portals tie for the highest Scrabble score from portals at 9 points. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in portals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and portals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: patrols and portals, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling portals turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patrol and portal. For points, the strongest plays are parols, pastor, patrol, polars, portal, postal, and sporal — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, plots, roast, solar, sport, strap, and traps. For points, the strongest plays are aport, larps, opals, parol, parts, plats, plots, polar, ports, praos, prats, proas, prost, sapor, splat, sport, sprat, strap, strop, tarps, 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 portals produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arts, laps, last, lost, lots, and oral. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apos, atop, laps, larp, lops, opal, opas, opts, pals, pars, part, past, pats, plat, plot, pols, port, post, pots, prao, prat, proa, pros, raps, rapt, rasp, salp, slap, slop, soap, spar, spat, spot, stop, taps, tarp, tops, trap, and trop — 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 portals turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, lap, lot, pal, pot, pro, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are alp, apo, apt, asp, lap, lop, opa, ops, opt, pal, par, pas, pat, pol, pos, pot, pro, pst, rap, sap, sop, spa, tap, and top — 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 portals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, and po — 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 portals and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
portals 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 three senses for portals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
portals is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing portals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patrols and portals, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from portals 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 portals produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.