pottage needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pottage is the highest-scoring word from pottage, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in pottage — and it is pottage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pottage turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is potage, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pottage. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is petto, 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 pottage produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate, goat, page, poet, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are gape, page, and peag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pottage turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ape, ate, eat, ego, and gap. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pottage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, go, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, 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 pottage 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.
pottage 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 two senses for pottage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pottage is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pottage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pottage, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pottage 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 pottage produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.