postulants 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, 390 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postulants is the highest-scoring word from postulants, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 390 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in postulants — and it is postulants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling postulants produces exactly one nine-letter word: postulant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postulants. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outplans and outspans, 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 postulants produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outpass, outplan, outspan, plutons, postals, pulsant, sponsal, spousal, sunspot, and unstops, 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 postulants turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plants, status, stunts, and toasts. For points, the strongest plays are lapsus, nopals, pantos, plants, pluots, pluton, postal, poults, pulaos, puntos, putons, splats, spouts, stoups, stupas, tossup, unstop, and uptoss — 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 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postulants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos, lasts, loans, pants, pasts, and plans. For points, the strongest plays are loups, nopal, opals, panto, pants, pasts, plans, plant, plats, plots, pluot, posts, poult, pouts, psoas, pulao, pulas, punas, punto, punts, puton, putto, putts, salps, slaps, slops, snaps, soaps, soups, spans, spats, splat, spots, spout, sputa, stops, stopt, stoup, stupa, ulpan, and unapt — 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 postulants produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, anus, aunt, auto, laps, and last. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apos, asps, atop, laps, lops, loup, naps, opal, opas, opts, opus, pals, pans, pant, pass, past, pats, plan, plat, plot, plus, pols, pons, post, pots, pout, psst, pula, puls, puna, puns, punt, puss, puts, putt, salp, saps, slap, slop, snap, soap, sops, soup, span, spas, spat, spot, spun, stop, sups, taps, tops, tups, upas, and upon — 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 postulants turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, lap, lot, nap, not, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are alp, apo, apt, asp, lap, lop, nap, opa, ops, opt, pal, pan, pas, pat, pol, pos, pot, pst, pul, pun, pus, put, sap, sop, spa, sup, tap, top, tup, upo, and ups — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postulants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
postulants 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 4-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 postulants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
postulants is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postulants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is postulants, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from postulants 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 postulants produce 390 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.