Hidden inside ports sit ports, prost, sport and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ports, prost, sport and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ports at 7 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in ports: three come from rearranging its letters, and ports itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sport. For points, the strongest plays are ports, prost, sport, and strop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ports produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with post, pots and pros. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including post, pots and pros.
Swap a single tile in ports and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
ports 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 fourteen senses for ports. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ports is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ports unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ports, prost, sport, and strop, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ports 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 ports produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.