Hidden inside portended sit portended and protended, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 217 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
portended and protended tie for the highest Scrabble score from portended at 13 points. The top 10 of 217 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in portended: one comes from rearranging its letters, and portended itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are portended and protended, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portended. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deported and pondered, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in portended produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pretend. For points, the strongest play is deponed — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling portended turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend, opened and opener. For points, the strongest plays are depend, pended, and ponded — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended and enter. For points, the strongest play is doped — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in portended produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep and deer. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including deep, drop and peed.
Unscrambling portended turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end and net. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in portended and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
portended 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.
portended is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing portended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are portended and protended, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from portended 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 portended produce 217 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.