Hidden inside proselytes sit polyesters and proselytes, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 559 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
polyesters and proselytes tie for the highest Scrabble score from proselytes at 15 points. The top 10 of 559 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in proselytes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and proselytes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are polyesters and proselytes, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling proselytes turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are polyester, proselyte, prostyles, and serotypes, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proselytes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eyespots, peytrels, prostyle, protyles, and serotype, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in proselytes produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posters and topless. For points, the strongest plays are eyespot, leprosy, ospreys, peyotes, peyotls, peytrel, protyle, protyls, retypes, spryest, steeply, stylops, and yelpers — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling proselytes turns up 108 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losers, poetry, poster, sleeps, sleepy, sorest, and sports. For points, the strongest plays are osprey, peltry, pertly, peyote, peyotl, ployes, plyers, poetry, portly, protyl, pyoses, retype, sepoys, sleepy, slypes, sporty, tepoys, and yelper — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 154 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proselytes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, loses, peels, plots, poets, poles, and poses. For points, the strongest plays are peery, pesty, ploye, ploys, plyer, poesy, polys, posey, potsy, preys, prosy, pyres, pyros, reply, ropey, seepy, sepoy, slype, sysop, tepoy, types, typos, and yelps — 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 proselytes produces 145 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lose, loss, lost, lots, and peel. For points, the strongest plays are ploy, poly, posy, prey, pyes, pyre, pyro, ropy, spry, espy, type, typo, yelp, and yeps — 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 proselytes turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eye, let, lot, pee, per, pet, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are ply, pry, pye, spy, and yep — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proselytes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, so, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in proselytes plus one additional letter.
proselytes 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 one sense for proselytes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
proselytes is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proselytes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are polyesters and proselytes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from proselytes 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 proselytes produce 559 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 108 six-letter words, 154 five-letter words, 145 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.