Hidden inside predator sit parroted, predator, prorated and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parroted, predator, prorated and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from predator at 11 points. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in predator: four come from rearranging its letters, and predator itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parroted, predator, prorated and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in predator produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adopter, eardrop, and readopt, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling predator turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with report and retard. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including depart, deport and dorper.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, adore and opera. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including adopt, taped and adept.
Rearranging the letters in predator produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including drop, aped and apod.
Unscrambling predator turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predator. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and do. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in predator plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in predator and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
predator 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 1-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 predator. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
predator is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predator unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parroted, predator, prorated, protrade, and teardrop, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from predator 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 predator produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.