Hidden inside potentials sit peltations and potentials, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 976 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peltations and potentials tie for the highest Scrabble score from potentials at 12 points. The top 10 of 976 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in potentials: one comes from rearranging its letters, and potentials itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peltations and potentials, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling potentials turns up 6 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with potential. For points, the strongest plays are antipoles, peltation, potential, sealpoint, septation, and tinplates — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potentials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patients, plainest, and politest. For points, the strongest plays are antipole, nepotist, opalines, paletots, panelist, pantiles, patients, plainest, platiest, plotties, polentas, politest, potlines, saponite, spoliate, talipots, tinplate, and toplines — 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 potentials produces 88 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate, panties, patient, planets, station, talents, and toilets. For points, the strongest plays are alpines, antipot, aplites, apostil, apostle, atopies, epinaos, epsilon, espanol, leptins, leptons, nopales, opaline, opiates, paletot, paliest, panties, pantile, patents, patient, patines, pattens, patties, pelotas, peltast, pineals, pinoles, pintles, pintoes, piolets, pistole, plaints, planets, platens, platies, plenist, pointes, polenta, pontils, potline, potties, pottles, sapient, senopia, spaniel, spinate, spittle, splenia, spotlit, talipes, talipot, teapots, teopans, tiptoes, topline, and topsail — 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 potentials turns up 173 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, latest, lattes, listen, paints, pianos, and pilots. For points, the strongest plays are alpine, aplite, aptest, aslope, espial, instep, lapins, leptin, lepton, lipase, netops, nopals, opiate, opines, paeons, paints, paleos, palest, palets, panels, pantie, pantos, pastel, pastie, pastil, patens, patent, patine, patins, patios, patois, patten, pattie, pelota, penial, pensil, petals, petsai, pianos, pietas, pilose, pilots, pineal, pineta, pinole, pinots, pintas, pintle, pintos, piolet, pistol, piston, pitons, pitots, pittas, plains, plaint, plaits, planes, planet, plants, platen, plates, pleats, pleons, pliant, pointe, points, poleis, polies, polite, ponies, pontes, pontil, postal, postie, postin, potent, potsie, pottle, ptisan, sapote, septal, sopite, spinal, spinel, spinet, spinto, spital, splent, spline, splint, spoilt, staple, stipel, teapot, teopan, tepals, tinpot, and tiptoe — 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 271 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potentials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, alone, nails, noise, notes, and opens. For points, the strongest plays are aspen, napes, neaps, netop, nipas, nopal, opals, opens, opine, opsin, paeon, pails, pains, paint, paise, paleo, pales, palet, palis, panel, panes, panto, pants, paseo, paste, paten, pates, patin, patio, peals, peans, peats, peins, pelon, pelts, penal, penis, peons, pesto, petal, petit, petti, petto, piano, pians, pieta, pilea, piles, pilot, pinas, pines, pinot, pinta, pinto, pints, pions, piste, pitas, piton, pitot, pitta, plain, plait, plane, plans, plant, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plena, pleon, plies, plots, poets, point, poise, poles, polis, pones, posit, psoae, psoai, salep, sepal, sepia, septa, slept, slipe, slipt, slope, sneap, snipe, spail, spait, spale, spate, spean, speil, spelt, spent, spiel, spile, spilt, spine, spite, splat, split, spoil, stipe, stope, stopt, tapes, tapis, tepal, tepas, estop, inapt, inept, inspo, lapin, lapis, lapse, leaps, leapt, lepta, lipas, lipos, lopes, topes, and topis — 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 potentials produces 263 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, apes, lane, laps, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apos, apse, atop, laps, leap, lept, lipa, lipe, lipo, lips, lisp, lope, lops, nape, naps, neap, nipa, nips, nope, opal, opas, open, opes, opts, pail, pain, pale, pali, pals, pane, pans, pant, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pean, peas, peat, pein, pelt, pens, pent, peon, peso, pest, pets, pial, pian, pias, pies, pile, pina, pine, pins, pint, pion, piso, pita, pits, plan, plat, plea, plie, plot, poet, pois, pole, pols, pone, pons, pose, post, pots, salp, sept, sipe, slap, slip, slop, snap, snip, soap, spae, span, spat, spin, spit, spot, step, stop, tape, taps, tepa, tips, tope, topi, tops, and epos — 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 potentials turns up 117 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, ate, eat, its, lap, and let. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apo, apt, asp, lap, lip, lop, nap, nip, opa, ope, ops, opt, pal, pan, pas, pat, pea, pen, pes, pet, pia, pie, pin, pis, pit, poi, pol, pos, pot, psi, pst, sap, sip, sop, spa, tap, 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 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potentials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in potentials plus one additional letter.
potentials 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 3-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 potentials. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
potentials is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing potentials unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peltations and potentials, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from potentials 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 potentials produce 976 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 88 seven-letter words, 173 six-letter words, 271 five-letter words, 263 four-letter words, 117 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.