Hidden inside predators sit predators and teardrops, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 621 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
predators and teardrops tie for the highest Scrabble score from predators at 12 points. The top 10 of 621 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in predators: one comes from rearranging its letters, and predators 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 predators and teardrops, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predators. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adopters, eardrops, parroted and 6 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in predators produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reports, retards, and starred. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including adopter, departs and deports.
Unscrambling predators turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts, adores and arrest. For points, 30 words tie at 9 points, including adopts, posted and spared.
There are 172 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, order and parts. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including posed, adopt and drops.
Rearranging the letters in predators produces 175 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and pads. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including pads, drop and aped.
Unscrambling predators turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and are. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in predators. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in predators plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in predators 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.
predators 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 predators. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
predators is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing predators unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are predators and teardrops, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from predators 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 predators produce 621 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 172 five-letter words, 175 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.