Hidden inside progestin sit postering, progestin, and reposting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 690 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in progestin: two come from rearranging its letters, and progestin 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 postering, progestin, and reposting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progestin. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perigons, pongiest, reposing, spongier, and sporting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in progestin produces 52 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignores, pigeons, posting, regions, resting, and sorting. For points, the strongest plays are epigons, perigon, perogis, pigeons, pingers, pingoes, pirogen, pongier, porgies, porting, posting, presong, prosing, ropings, serpigo, sponger, sporing, springe, and stoping — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling progestin turns up 144 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, ignore, orgies, person, pigeon, points, and ponies. For points, the strongest plays are epigon, genips, gipons, gripes, gropes, opting, pengos, perogi, pigeon, pinger, pingos, pogies, poring, posing, prongs, roping, spigot, sponge, spring, and toping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progestin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noise, notes, opens, penis, poets, point, and porns. For points, the strongest plays are oping, pengo, pingo, pings, pirog, pongs, prigs, progs, prong, genip, gipon, gorps, gripe, grips, gript, grope, sprig, and sprog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in progestin produces 172 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nope, nose, note, ones, and open. For points, the strongest plays are pegs, pigs, ping, pong, prig, prog, gips, gorp, and grip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling progestin turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get, got, its, net, nor, and not. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in progestin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, 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.
11 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in progestin plus one additional letter.
progestin appears in the word lists that Scrabble and Words With Friends validate against, so the rack is playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-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 progestin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
progestin is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing progestin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are postering, progestin, and reposting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from progestin 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 progestin produce 690 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 52 seven-letter words, 144 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 172 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.
The anagram solver inside UnscrambleX compares progestin against the dictionaries used by Scrabble, Words With Friends, Word Jumble, and Text Twist, keeps every arrangement those dictionaries contain, and sorts the confirmed words by tile score. That sorting step is why postering, progestin, and reposting appear at the top of the results. A word on this page is a legal play in Scrabble and Words With Friends, not a letter combination that only looks like a word.
Unscrambling progestin produces two kinds of plays in Scrabble and Words With Friends: one high-scoring word, and one short word that fits a crowded board.
The high-scoring play is postering. The short plays are en and er, and they cover the turns when the board leaves no open line long enough for the bigger word.
The score gap is exact: the lowest-scoring word from these letters earns 2 points in Scrabble and the highest-scoring word earns 12 points. The letters are identical in both cases, so the board decides the value of the turn.
UnscrambleX lists every word from these letters with its Scrabble score and its Words With Friends score, so the choice between points and board position is made from numbers instead of memory.
The results list works as a vocabulary drill for Scrabble and Words With Friends players. Cover the list, rearrange progestin in your head, and count how many of the 690 words you find before you check the answers.
Experienced players find the long words such as postering and progestin without help. The short words are the ones that go unnoticed, and short words decide close games in Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Text Twist.
Repeat the drill on a few letter sets each day. Vowel positions, common endings such as -ed and -ing, and high-value tiles become recognisable without an unscrambler.
Unscrambling adds words that reading never supplies. No Scrabble player opens a dictionary to look for en, and the word enters a playable vocabulary only because a results list produced it.
Spelling accuracy improves at the same time. Building postering from loose tiles forces one letter order and returns a correct or incorrect verdict inside the same move, which is faster feedback than a spelling test. Plays from progestin range from 2 to 12 points in Scrabble, so every turn also asks a scoring question: take the points now, or keep the flexible tiles for the next turn.
Words assembled from tiles are remembered better than words only read, and timed games such as Text Twist and Word Jumble reward that recall directly.