Hidden inside prelates sit petrales, pleaters, prelates and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 434 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
petrales, pleaters, prelates and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from prelates at 10 points. The top 10 of 434 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in prelates: three come from rearranging its letters, and prelates 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 petrales, pleaters, prelates, and replates, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in prelates produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relates and repeats. For points, the strongest plays are epaters, leapers, palters, pelters, persalt, petrale, petrels, plaster, platers, pleaser, pleater, prelate, presale, psalter, relapse, repeals, repeats, replate, respelt, retapes, spelter, and stapler — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling prelates turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, asleep, easter, plates, please, and relate. For points, the strongest plays are asleep, elapse, epater, etapes, lapser, leaper, lepers, palest, palets, palter, parles, pastel, paster, paters, pearls, pelter, peseta, pester, pestle, petals, peters, petrel, plater, plates, please, pleats, prates, preset, repast, repeal, repeat, repels, retape, sapele, septal, serape, staple, tapers, tepals, and trapes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prelates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, erase, laser, later, leaps, and leapt. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, etape, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, leper, lepta, paler, pales, palet, pares, parle, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, peals, pearl, pears, peart, pease, peats, peels, peers, peles, pelts, perea, peres, perse, petal, peter, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, prest, rapes, reaps, repel, salep, sepal, septa, sleep, slept, spale, spare, spate, spear, speel, speer, spelt, splat, sprat, spree, steep, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepal, tepas, and traps — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in prelates produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, laps, last, late, leap, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, lept, pale, pals, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, peel, peer, pees, pele, pelt, pere, pert, pest, pets, plat, plea, prat, pree, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, salp, seep, sept, slap, spae, spar, spat, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, and trap — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling prelates turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, pal, par, pas, pat, pea, pee, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, and tap — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prelates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in prelates 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.
prelates 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 one sense for prelates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
prelates is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prelates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are petrales, pleaters, prelates, and replates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prelates 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 prelates produce 434 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.