Hidden inside postures sit outpress, postures, and spouters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 327 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outpress, postures, and spouters tie for the highest Scrabble score from postures at 10 points. The top 10 of 327 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in postures: two come from rearranging its letters, and postures itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outpress, postures, and spouters, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in postures produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posters and sourest. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including posters, petrous and poseurs.
Unscrambling postures turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster, purest and purses. For points, 43 words tie at 8 points, including poster, purest and purses.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outer, poets and poses. For points, 50 words tie at 7 points, including poets, poses and posts.
Rearranging the letters in postures produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, pets and poet. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including pets, poet and pose.
Unscrambling postures turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our, out and per. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including per, pet and pot.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in postures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postures 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.
postures 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 six senses for postures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
postures is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outpress, postures, and spouters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from postures 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 postures produce 327 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.