Hidden inside protested sit protested and respotted, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 357 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
protested and respotted tie for the highest Scrabble score from protested at 12 points. The top 10 of 357 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in protested: one comes from rearranging its letters, and protested itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with protested. For points, the strongest plays are protested and respotted — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protested. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dopester, postered, pottered, reposted, and repotted, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in protested produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with protest and spotted. For points, the strongest plays are deports, deposer, redtops, reposed, sported, and spotted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling protested turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, petted, posted, poster, rested, sorted, and street. For points, the strongest plays are deport, depose, depots, despot, dopers, dopest, epodes, pedros, petted, ported, posted, potted, prosed, redtop, speedo, spored, and stoped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 98 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protested. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, drops, poets, posed, ropes, speed, and sport. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, depot, doper, dopes, dorps, drops, dropt, epode, opted, pedes, pedro, pored, posed, preed, prods, roped, speed, spode, and toped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in protested produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, does, dots, drop, peed, and pees. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, dope, dorp, drop, oped, peds, peed, pods, prod, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling protested turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, pee, per, pet, pot, pro, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protested. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, 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 protested 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.
protested 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.
protested is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing protested unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are protested and respotted, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from protested 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 protested produce 357 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 98 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.