Hidden inside prosateur sit prosateur and pterosaur, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 561 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prosateur and pterosaur tie for the highest Scrabble score from prosateur at 11 points. The top 10 of 561 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in prosateur: one comes from rearranging its letters, and prosateur 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 prosateur and pterosaur, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prosateur. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apterous, pasturer, posturer and 5 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in prosateur produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reports. For points, 32 words tie at 9 points, including reports, esparto and parrots.
Unscrambling prosateur turns up 90 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, operas and poster. For points, 59 words tie at 8 points, including operas, poster and purest.
There are 147 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prosateur. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, opera and outer. For points, 87 words tie at 7 points, including opera, parts and pause.
Rearranging the letters in prosateur produces 164 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and auto. For points, 74 words tie at 6 points, including apes, part and past.
Unscrambling prosateur turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, 34 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prosateur. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including up, op and pa.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in prosateur plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in prosateur and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
prosateur 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.
prosateur is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prosateur unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prosateur and pterosaur, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from prosateur 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 prosateur produce 561 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 90 six-letter words, 147 five-letter words, 164 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.