prompts needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MORPPTS, PPTROMS or POTPRMS and you get the same 7 letters as PROMPTS: so the words from PROMPTS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
prompts is the highest-scoring word from prompts, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in prompts — and it is prompts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prompts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with proms, props and sport. For points, the strongest play is pomps — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in prompts produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mops, most and pops. For points, the strongest play is pomp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling prompts turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mop, pop and pot. For points, the strongest plays are mop, pom, and pop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prompts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are mo, om, op, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in prompts 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.
prompts 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 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 eight senses for prompts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
prompts is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prompts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is prompts, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from prompts 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 prompts produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.