Hidden inside predations sit patronised and predations, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1631 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patronised and predations tie for the highest Scrabble score from predations at 13 points. The top 10 of 1631 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in predations: one comes from rearranging its letters, and predations 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 patronised and predations, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling predations turns up 10 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antipodes, dipterans, dripstone, pintadoes, and predation, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 69 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predations. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adopters, antipode, depaints, diaspore, dioptase, diopters, dioptres, dipteran, dipteron, notepads, operands, padrones, pandores, parodies, parodist, parotids, pastored, peridots, pintados, poniards, portends, portside, prisoned, pronated, proteids, protends, rapidest, readopts, riposted, satinpod, sprained, sprinted, topsider, and traipsed, 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 predations produces 194 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deposit, diapers, donates, editors, instead, nastier, and painted. For points, the strongest plays are adipose, adopter, aproned, aspired, dapsone, depaint, departs, deports, deposit, despair, diapers, diopter, dioptre, dipnets, diptera, dispart, disport, dopants, dopiest, notepad, operand, opiated, padrone, padroni, painted, panders, pandies, pandits, pandore, pantsed, pardine, pardons, parotid, partied, patined, pedants, pentads, peridot, periods, pernods, petards, pinders, pintado, pirated, podesta, podites, pointed, ponders, poniard, portend, posited, praised, printed, proteid, protend, readopt, redtops, respond, sandpit, sopited, sparoid, spirted, sported, stipend, striped, topside, torpids, and tripods — 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 predations turns up 335 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operas, paints, pardon, parent, period, person, and pianos. For points, the strongest plays are opined, padres, pained, paired, pander, pandit, panted, pardie, pardon, parsed, parted, pasted, pedant, pedros, pentad, period, pernod, petard, pinder, podite, poinds, poised, ponder, ponied, ported, posted, prated, prides, prised, proned, prosed, rapids, rasped, redips, redipt, redtop, repaid, repand, spider, spined, spired, spited, spored, spread, stiped, stoped, torpid, trepid, tripod, adepts, adopts, depart, deport, depots, despot, diaper, dipnet, dopant, dopers, dopest, dopier, drapes, sniped, soaped, spader, spared, and sparid — 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 458 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, adore, aired, aside, nerds, noise, and notes. For points, the strongest plays are adept, adopt, apods, naped, opted, padis, padre, padri, paned, pardi, pards, pared, pated, pedis, pedro, pends, pined, podia, poind, ponds, pored, posed, pride, pried, prods, raped, rapid, redip, riped, roped, sapid, siped, spade, spado, spaed, spend, spied, spode, taped, tepid, depot, dipso, dopas, doper, dopes, dorps, drape, drips, dript, drops, dropt, 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 predations produces 364 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, ants, apes, arts, dare, and date. For points, the strongest plays are aped, apod, daps, deps, dips, dipt, dopa, dope, dorp, drip, drop, oped, padi, pads, paid, pard, pedi, peds, pend, pied, pods, pond, prod, and sped — 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 predations turns up 159 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, ant, ape, and are. 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 40 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, do, id, and in. 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 predations plus one additional letter.
predations 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 predations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
predations is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patronised and predations, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from predations 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 predations produce 1631 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 69 eight-letter words, 194 seven-letter words, 335 six-letter words, 458 five-letter words, 364 four-letter words, 159 three-letter words and 40 two-letter words.