Hidden inside pretreats sit patterers and pretreats, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 338 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patterers and pretreats tie for the highest Scrabble score from pretreats at 11 points. The top 10 of 338 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pretreats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pretreats 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 patterers and pretreats, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretreats. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are patterer, peartest, pretaste, pretreat, and taperers, 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 pretreats produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeats and starter. For points, the strongest plays are epaters, parters, patters, pearter, pertest, petters, praters, prester, pretest, reapers, repeats, retapes, septate, spatter, spearer, taperer, and tapster — 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 pretreats turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, estate, rarest, repeat, sparer, and street. For points, the strongest plays are aptest, epater, etapes, parers, parser, parter, paster, paters, pattee, patter, perter, peseta, pester, peters, petter, prater, prates, preset, rapers, rasper, reaper, repast, repeat, retape, septet, serape, sparer, tapers, 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretreats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, parts, rates, spare, stare, start, and state. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, etape, parer, pares, parrs, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, pease, peats, peers, perea, peres, perse, peter, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, prest, raper, rapes, reaps, septa, spare, spate, spear, speer, sprat, spree, steep, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepas, traps, 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 pretreats produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, ears, ease, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pare, parr, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peer, pees, pere, pert, pest, pets, prat, pree, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, seep, sept, 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 pretreats turns up 50 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, asp, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretreats. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pretreats plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pretreats 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.
pretreats 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.
pretreats is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretreats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patterers and pretreats, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pretreats 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 pretreats produce 338 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.