predation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 614 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
predation is the highest-scoring word from predation, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 614 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in predation — and it is predation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antipode, dipteran, dipteron, and pronated, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in predation produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with painted, partied, pointed, printed, and trained. For points, the strongest plays are adopter, aproned, depaint, diopter, dioptre, diptera, notepad, operand, opiated, padrone, padroni, painted, pandore, pardine, parotid, partied, patined, peridot, pintado, pirated, pointed, poniard, portend, printed, proteid, protend, and readopt — 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 predation turns up 96 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diaper, donate, editor, pardon, parent, period, and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are depart, deport, diaper, dipnet, dopant, dopier, opined, pained, paired, pander, pandit, panted, pardie, pardon, parted, pedant, pentad, period, pernod, petard, pinder, podite, ponder, ponied, ported, prated, proned, redipt, redtop, repaid, repand, torpid, trepid, and tripod — 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 146 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, paint, piano, point, pride, print, and radio. For points, the strongest plays are naped, opted, padre, padri, paned, pardi, pared, pated, pedro, pined, podia, poind, pored, pride, pried, raped, rapid, redip, riped, adept, adopt, depot, doper, drape, dript, dropt, roped, taped, tepid, and toped — 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 predation produces 179 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with near, neat, nerd, nope, note, open, and paid. For points, the strongest plays are aped, apod, oped, padi, paid, pard, pedi, pend, pied, pond, prod, dipt, dopa, dope, dorp, drip, and drop — 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 predation turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, ape, are, and art. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, pad, ped, and pod — 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 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, id, in, and it. 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in predation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in predation 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.
predation 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 predation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
predation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is predation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from predation 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 predation produce 614 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 96 six-letter words, 146 five-letter words, 179 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.