Hidden inside pretreat sit patterer and pretreat, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patterer and pretreat tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretreat at 10 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pretreat: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pretreat 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 patterer and pretreat, 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 pretreat produces 4 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 pearter and taperer, 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 pretreat turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeat. For points, the strongest plays are epater, parter, pattee, patter, perter, petter, prater, reaper, repeat, and retape — 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretreat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treat. For points, the strongest plays are apter, etape, parer, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, raper, taper, and trapt — 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 pretreat produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with part, rare, rate, tape, tear, trap, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are aper, pare, parr, part, pate, pear, peat, peer, pere, pert, prat, pree, rape, rapt, reap, tape, 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 pretreat turns up 30 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 ape, apt, par, pat, pea, pee, per, pet, rap, rep, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretreat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 pretreat 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.
pretreat 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.
pretreat is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretreat unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patterer and pretreat, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretreat 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 pretreat produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.