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.
Unscramble PESTTRO, PROTTSE or TORPETS and you get the same 7 letters as PROTEST: so the words from PROTEST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
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.
Unscrambling protest turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poster. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including poster, potter and presto.
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, 22 words tie at 7 points, including poets, ropes and sport.
Rearranging the letters in protest produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pets, poet and pose. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including pets, poet and pose.
Unscrambling protest turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet and pot. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including per, pet and pot.
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.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in protest plus one additional letter.
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.