probate needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
probate is the highest-scoring word from probate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in probate — and it is probate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling probate turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boater, borate, protea, and rebato, 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 probate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort and opera. For points, the strongest plays are probe and rebop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in probate produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear, beat, boat, bore, brat, and part. For points, the strongest play is prob — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling probate turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bo, op, pa, pe, and po — 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 probate and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
probate 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 four senses for probate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
probate is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing probate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is probate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from probate 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 probate produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.