posteriors needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 474 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posteriors is the highest-scoring word from posteriors, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 474 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in posteriors — and it is posteriors itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling posteriors produces exactly one nine-letter word: posterior. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posteriors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roosters. For points, the strongest plays are isotopes, pierrots, portress, presorts, prioress, prosiest, prosties, reposits, ripostes, spoorers, sporters, sportier, stoopers, stripers, triposes, 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 posteriors produces 61 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poorest, posters, priests, reports, rooster, stories, and stripes. For points, the strongest plays are espoirs, esprits, isotope, persist, pierrot, poisers, poorest, porters, posiest, posters, posties, potsies, preriot, presort, pressor, prestos, pretors, priests, prosers, prosier, prossie, prostie, reports, reposit, reposts, respots, riposte, riposts, ropiest, sitreps, sopites, spoorer, sporter, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stooper, stopers, striper, stripes, 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 posteriors turns up 107 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poorer, poster, priest, report, resist, sister, and sorest. For points, the strongest plays are espoir, esprit, estops, pestos, pisser, pistes, poiser, poises, poorer, pooris, porose, porter, posers, posier, posies, posits, posset, poster, postie, potsie, presto, prests, pretor, priers, priest, priors, prises, proser, proses, prosit, prosos, protei, ptoses, ptosis, report, repost, repots, repros, respot, ripest, ripost, ropers, ropier, sitrep, sopite, sopors, speirs, spiers, spires, spirts, spites, spoors, spores, sports, sprier, sprite, sprits, stipes, stirps, stoops, stoper, stopes, streps, stripe, strips, strops, 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 112 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posteriors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, poses, posts, press, rests, riots, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are estop, peris, pesos, pesto, pests, piers, pisos, piste, poets, poise, poori, pores, ports, poser, poses, posit, posse, posts, press, prest, prier, pries, prior, prise, priss, prose, proso, pross, prost, repos, repot, repro, riper, ripes, roper, ropes, septs, sipes, sopor, speir, spier, spies, spire, spirt, spite, spits, spoor, spore, sport, spots, sprit, steps, stipe, stirp, stoop, stope, stops, 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 posteriors produces 97 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 oops, opes, opts, peri, pert, peso, pest, pets, pier, pies, piso, piss, pits, poet, pois, poor, poos, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, psis, psst, repo, reps, ripe, rips, rope, seps, sept, sipe, sips, sops, spit, spot, step, stop, epos, 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 posteriors turns up 55 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 posteriors. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in posteriors plus one additional letter.
posteriors 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 posteriors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
posteriors is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing posteriors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is posteriors, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from posteriors 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 posteriors produce 474 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 21 eight-letter words, 61 seven-letter words, 107 six-letter words, 112 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.