Hidden inside porterages sit porterages, prestorage, and reportages, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 697 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
porterages, prestorage, and reportages tie for the highest Scrabble score from porterages at 13 points. The top 10 of 697 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in porterages: two come from rearranging its letters, and porterages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are porterages, prestorage, and reportages, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling porterages turns up 3 nine-letter words. 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.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porterages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operates. For points, the strongest plays are portages, presager, and proteges — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in porterages produces 59 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greater, operate and regrets. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including apogees, gestapo and grasper.
Unscrambling porterages turns up 130 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, arrest and easter. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including grapes, apogee and gapers.
There are 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porterages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, pages and parts. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including pages, grape and pager.
Rearranging the letters in porterages produces 182 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes and arts. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including page, gaps and peag.
Unscrambling porterages turns up 98 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porterages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in porterages plus one additional letter.
porterages 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 porterages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
porterages is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing porterages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are porterages, prestorage, and reportages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from porterages 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 porterages produce 697 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 59 seven-letter words, 130 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 182 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.