Hidden inside porterage sit porterage and reportage, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
porterage and reportage tie for the highest Scrabble score from porterage at 12 points. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in porterage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and porterage 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 porterage and reportage, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling porterage produces exactly one eight-letter word: perorate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in porterage produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greater and operate. For points, the strongest plays are portage and protege — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling porterage turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with regret, repeat, and report. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including apogee, groper and parget.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porterage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, grape and great. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including grape, gaper and grope.
Rearranging the letters in porterage produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, goat and page. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including page, gape and gorp.
Unscrambling porterage turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ape. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porterage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, go, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in porterage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in porterage 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.
porterage 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 porterage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
porterage is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing porterage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are porterage and reportage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from porterage 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 porterage produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.