probatory needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 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.
probatory is the highest-scoring word from probatory, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in probatory — and it is probatory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in probatory 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 parroty, portray, and robotry, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling probatory turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is potboy, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, booty and party. For points, the strongest play is poboy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in probatory produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boat, boot and brat. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including pray, boyo and bray.
Unscrambling probatory turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, bar and bat. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including bay, boy and pay.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in probatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay and by. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
probatory 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 one sense for probatory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
probatory is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing probatory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is probatory, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from probatory 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 probatory produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.