protrudes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 465 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
protrudes is the highest-scoring word from protrudes, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 465 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in protrudes — and it is protrudes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protrudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with proudest. For points, the strongest plays are postured, protrude, proudest, and sprouted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in protrudes produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prouder and reports. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including prouder, deports and dorpers.
Unscrambling protrudes turns up 88 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orders, posted and poster. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including posted, poured and deport.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protrudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drops, order and outer. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including drops, posed and proud.
Rearranging the letters in protrudes produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, pets and poet. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including drop, oped and peds.
Unscrambling protrudes turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due and our. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dep, dup and ped.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in protrudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in protrudes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in protrudes 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.
protrudes 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for protrudes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
protrudes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing protrudes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is protrudes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from protrudes 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 protrudes produce 465 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 88 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.