Hidden inside porters sit porters, presort, pretors and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
porters, presort, pretors and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from porters at 9 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in porters: four come from rearranging its letters, and porters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reports. For points, the strongest plays are porters, presort, pretors, reports, and sporter — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling porters turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster and report. For points, the strongest plays are porter, poster, presto, pretor, proser, report, repost, repots, repros, respot, ropers, stoper, topers, and tropes — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, ropes, sorer, sport, and store. For points, the strongest plays are estop, pesto, poets, pores, ports, poser, prest, prose, prost, repos, repot, repro, roper, ropes, spore, sport, stope, strep, strop, toper, topes, and trope — 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 porters produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, poet, pose, post, pots, pros, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, opts, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, repo, reps, rope, sept, spot, step, stop, tope, tops, 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 porters turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet, pot, pro, rep, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, opt, per, pes, pet, pos, pot, pro, pst, rep, sop, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in porters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
Swap a single tile in porters 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.
porters 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for porters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
porters is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing porters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are porters, presort, pretors, reports, and sporter, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from porters 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 porters produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.