Hidden inside pottering sit pottering and repotting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 286 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pottering and repotting tie for the highest Scrabble score from pottering at 12 points. The top 10 of 286 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pottering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pottering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pottering and repotting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pottering produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with petting. For points, the strongest plays are perigon, petting, pirogen, pongier, porting, and potting — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pottering turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gotten, ignore, pigeon, region, and rotten. For points, the strongest plays are epigon, opting, perogi, pigeon, pinger, poring, roping, and toping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pottering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, point, print, and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are genip, gipon, gripe, gript, grope, oping, pengo, pingo, pirog, and prong — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pottering produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gone, grip, into, iron, nope, note, and open. For points, the strongest plays are gorp, grip, ping, pong, prig, and prog — 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 pottering turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get, got, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pottering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pottering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pottering and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
pottering 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.
pottering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pottering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pottering and repotting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pottering 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 pottering produce 286 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.