Hidden inside prorates sit praetors and prorates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 372 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
praetors and prorates tie for the highest Scrabble score from prorates at 10 points. The top 10 of 372 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in prorates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and prorates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are praetors and prorates, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in prorates produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reports. For points, the strongest plays are esparto, parrots, parters, porters, praetor, praters, presort, pretors, prorate, proteas, raptors, reports, seaport, and sporter — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling prorates turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, operas, poster, rarest, report, and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are operas, pareos, parers, parrot, parser, parter, paster, pastor, paters, porter, poster, prater, prates, presto, pretor, proser, protea, rapers, raptor, rasper, repast, report, repost, repots, repros, respot, ropers, sapote, soaper, sparer, stoper, tapers, topers, trapes, and tropes — 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prorates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, parts, poets, rates, roast, ropes, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are apers, aport, apres, apter, asper, estop, opera, pareo, parer, pares, parrs, parse, parts, paseo, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, pesto, poets, pores, ports, poser, praos, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, proas, prose, prost, psoae, raper, rapes, reaps, repos, repot, repro, roper, ropes, sapor, septa, spare, spate, spear, spore, sport, sprat, stope, strap, strep, strop, taper, tapes, tarps, tepas, toper, topes, traps, and trope — 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 prorates produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, part, past, peas, pets, and poet. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apos, apse, atop, opas, opes, opts, pare, parr, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, prao, prat, proa, pros, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, repo, reps, rope, sept, soap, spae, spar, spat, spot, step, stop, epos, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tope, tops, trap, and trop — 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 prorates turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apo, apt, asp, opa, ope, ops, opt, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pos, pot, pro, pst, rap, rep, sap, sop, spa, tap, and top — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prorates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are 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 prorates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
prorates 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 two senses for prorates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
prorates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prorates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are praetors and prorates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prorates 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 prorates produce 372 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.