Hidden inside protest sit potters, protest, and spotter, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
potters, protest, and spotter tie for the highest Scrabble score from protest at 9 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in protest: two come from rearranging its letters, and protest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with protest. For points, the strongest plays are potters, protest, and spotter — 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 protest turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster. For points, the strongest plays are poster, potter, presto, repost, repots, respot, stoper, topers, 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, ropes, sport, and store. For points, the strongest plays are estop, pesto, petto, poets, pores, ports, poser, prest, prose, prost, repos, repot, ropes, spore, sport, stope, stopt, strep, strop, toper, topes, 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 protest produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, poet, pose, post, pots, pros, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, opts, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, repo, reps, rope, sept, spot, step, stop, tope, tops, 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 protest turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet, pot, pro, rep, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, opt, per, pes, pet, pos, pot, pro, pst, rep, sop, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. 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.
Swap a single tile in protest 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.
protest 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 six senses for protest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
protest is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing protest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are potters, protest, and spotter, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from protest 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 protest produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.