posterior needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 325 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posterior is the highest-scoring word from posterior, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 325 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in posterior — and it is posterior itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posterior. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pierrots, sportier, and troopers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in posterior produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poorest, reports, and rooster. For points, the strongest plays are isotope, pierrot, poorest, porters, preriot, presort, pretors, prosier, prostie, reports, reposit, riposte, ropiest, spoorer, sporter, stooper, striper, torpors, and trooper — 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 posterior turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poorer, poster, priest, report, stripe, and troops. For points, the strongest plays are espoir, esprit, poiser, poorer, pooris, porose, porter, posier, poster, postie, potsie, presto, pretor, priers, priest, priors, proser, prosit, protei, report, repost, repots, repros, respot, ripest, ripost, ropers, ropier, sitrep, sopite, sprier, sprite, stoper, stripe, topers, torpor, tripes, tripos, troops, 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 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posterior. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, riots, roots, ropes, sorer, sport, and store. For points, the strongest plays are estop, peris, pesto, piers, piste, poets, poise, poori, pores, ports, poser, posit, prest, prier, pries, prior, prise, prose, proso, prost, repos, repot, repro, riper, ripes, roper, ropes, sopor, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spite, spoor, spore, sport, sprit, stipe, stirp, stoop, stope, strep, strip, strop, toper, topes, topis, topoi, topos, tripe, trips, troop, 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 posterior produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, pets, pies, pits, poet, poor, and poos. For points, the strongest plays are epos, oops, opes, opts, peri, pert, peso, pest, pets, pier, pies, piso, pits, poet, pois, poor, poos, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, sept, sipe, spit, spot, step, stop, tips, tope, topi, topo, tops, trip, 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 posterior turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, per, pet, pie, pit, poo, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, opt, per, pes, pet, pie, pis, pit, poi, poo, pos, pot, pro, psi, pst, rep, rip, sip, sop, tip, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posterior. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in posterior plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in posterior 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.
posterior 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 four senses for posterior. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
posterior is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing posterior unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is posterior, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from posterior 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 posterior produce 325 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.