Hidden inside protests sit protests and spotters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
protests and spotters tie for the highest Scrabble score from protests at 10 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in protests: one comes from rearranging its letters, and protests itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with protests. For points, the strongest plays are protests and spotters — 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 protests produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posters and protest. For points, the strongest plays are posters, potters, prestos, protest, reposts, respots, spotter, and stopers — 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 protests turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster, sorest, sports, and stores. For points, the strongest plays are estops, pestos, posers, posset, poster, potter, presto, prests, proses, ptoses, repost, repots, respot, spores, sports, stoper, stopes, streps, strops, 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 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets, poses, posts, press, rests, ropes, and roses. For points, the strongest plays are estop, pesos, pesto, pests, petto, poets, pores, ports, poser, poses, posse, posts, press, prest, prose, pross, prost, repos, repot, ropes, septs, spore, sport, spots, steps, stope, stops, 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 protests produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, poet, pose, post, pots, pros, and psst. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, opts, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, psst, repo, reps, rope, seps, sept, sops, 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 protests turns up 34 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 protests. 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 protests 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.
protests 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 protests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
protests is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing protests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are protests and spotters, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from protests 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 protests produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.