Hidden inside postern sit postern and pronest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postern and pronest tie for the highest Scrabble score from postern at 9 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in postern: one comes from rearranging its letters, and postern itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are postern and pronest, 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 postern turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with person and poster. For points, the strongest plays are netops, person, pontes, poster, presto, prones, repost, repots, respot, sprent, 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notes, opens, poets, porns, rents, ropes, and spent. For points, the strongest plays are estop, netop, opens, peons, pesto, poets, pones, pores, porns, ports, poser, prest, prone, prose, prost, repos, repot, ropes, spent, 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 postern produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nope, nose, note, ones, and open. For points, the strongest plays are epos, nope, open, opes, opts, pens, pent, peon, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pone, pons, pore, porn, 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 postern turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, nor, not, one, pen, per, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, opt, pen, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, 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 postern 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.
postern 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 one sense for postern. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
postern is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postern unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are postern and pronest, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from postern 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 postern produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.