Hidden inside proles sit lopers, polers, proles and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lopers, polers, proles and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from proles at 8 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in proles: four come from rearranging its letters, and proles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lopers, polers, proles, sloper, and splore, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, poles, roles, and ropes. For points, the strongest plays are loper, lopes, poler, poles, pores, poser, prole, prose, repos, ropes, slope, and spore — 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 proles produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lose, pole, pose, pros, reps, role, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are epos, lope, lops, opes, peso, pole, pols, pore, pose, pros, repo, reps, rope, and slop — 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 proles turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are lop, ope, ops, per, pes, pol, pos, pro, rep, and sop — 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 proles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, 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.
29 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in proles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in proles and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
proles 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 one sense for proles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
proles is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lopers, polers, proles, sloper, and splore, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from proles 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 proles produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.