posterns needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 274 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posterns is the highest-scoring word from posterns, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 274 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in posterns — and it is posterns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in posterns produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with persons and posters. For points, the strongest plays are persons, postern, posters, prestos, pronest, reposts, respots, stepson, and stopers — 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 posterns turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with person, poster, sorest, sports, stones, and stores. For points, the strongest plays are estops, netops, person, pestos, pontes, posers, posset, poster, presto, prests, prones, proses, ptoses, repost, repots, respot, spores, sports, sprent, stoper, stopes, streps, strops, 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posterns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, noses, notes, opens, poets, porns, and poses. For points, the strongest plays are estop, netop, opens, peons, pesos, pesto, pests, poets, pones, pores, porns, ports, poser, poses, posse, posts, press, prest, prone, prose, pross, prost, repos, repot, ropes, septs, spent, spore, sport, spots, steps, stope, stops, 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 posterns produces 78 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, psst, repo, reps, rope, seps, sept, sops, 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 posterns turns up 46 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 posterns. 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 posterns and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
posterns 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 posterns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
posterns is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing posterns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is posterns, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from posterns 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 posterns produce 274 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.