Hidden inside portends sit portends and protends, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 347 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
portends and protends tie for the highest Scrabble score from portends at 11 points. The top 10 of 347 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in portends: one comes from rearranging its letters, and portends 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 portends and protends, 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 portends produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with respond. For points, the strongest plays are deports, pernods, ponders, portend, protend, redtops, respond, and sported — 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 portends turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with person, posted, poster, and sorted. For points, the strongest plays are deport, depots, despot, dopers, dopest, pedros, pernod, ponder, ported, posted, proned, prosed, redtop, spored, and stoped — 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 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drops, nerds, notes, opens, poets, ponds, and porns. For points, the strongest plays are depot, doper, dopes, dorps, drops, dropt, opted, pedro, pends, ponds, pored, posed, prods, roped, spend, spode, and toped — 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 portends produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerd, nest, nets, nope, nose, note, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are oped, peds, pend, pods, pond, prod, sped, deps, dope, dorp, and drop — 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 portends turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end, net, nor, not, one, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in portends plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in portends 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.
portends 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 one sense for portends. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
portends is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing portends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are portends and protends, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from portends 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 portends produce 347 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.