Hidden inside praetorian sit praetorian and reparation, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 442 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
praetorian and reparation tie for the highest Scrabble score from praetorian at 12 points. The top 10 of 442 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in praetorian: one comes from rearranging its letters, and praetorian 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 praetorian and reparation, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling praetorian produces exactly one nine-letter word: pretorian. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in praetorian. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antirape, atropine, pretrain and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in praetorian produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airport, partner, printer, and trainer. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including airport, partner and printer.
Unscrambling praetorian turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent, pirate, repair, and report. For points, 47 words tie at 8 points, including parent, pirate and repair.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in praetorian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, opera and paint. For points, 55 words tie at 7 points, including apart, opera and paint.
Rearranging the letters in praetorian produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, near and neat. For points, 58 words tie at 6 points, including nope, open and pain.
Unscrambling praetorian turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and ape. For points, 28 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in praetorian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including op, pa and pe.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in praetorian plus one additional letter.
praetorian 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 three senses for praetorian. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
praetorian is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing praetorian unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are praetorian and reparation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from praetorian 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 praetorian produce 442 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.