Hidden inside pterosaurs sit prosateurs and pterosaurs, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 807 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prosateurs and pterosaurs tie for the highest Scrabble score from pterosaurs at 12 points. The top 10 of 807 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in pterosaurs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pterosaurs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prosateurs and pterosaurs, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pterosaurs turns up 7 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with superstar. For points, the strongest plays are pasturers, posturers, proestrus, prosateur, pterosaur, resprouts, and superstar — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pterosaurs. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apterous, aspersor, espartos, outpress, pasturer, pastures, portress, posturer, postures, praetors, presorts, prorates, protases, raptures, resprout, seaports, sporters, spouters, spurters, troupers, and upstares, 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 pterosaurs produces 91 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests, posters, reports, sourest, and sparest. For points, the strongest plays are esparto, outpass, parrots, parsers, parters, parures, pasters, pastors, pasture, pausers, petasos, petasus, petrous, porters, poseurs, posters, posture, pourers, pouters, praetor, praters, presort, pressor, prestos, pretors, prorate, prosers, proteas, proteus, pursers, raptors, rapture, raspers, repasts, reports, reposts, repours, respots, sapotes, sapours, seaport, soapers, sparers, sparest, sparser, sporter, spouter, sprouts, spurter, stopers, stupors, trouper, troupes, uprates, uprears, uproars, upsoars, upstare, and uptears — 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 pterosaurs turns up 167 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, assure, operas, pauses, poster, purest, and purses. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, erupts, estops, operas, opuses, pareos, parers, pareus, parous, parrot, parser, parses, parter, parure, paseos, passer, paster, pastes, pastor, paters, pauser, pauses, pestos, porter, posers, poseur, posset, poster, pourer, pouter, prases, prater, prates, presto, prests, pretor, proser, proses, protea, ptoses, purest, purser, purses, rapers, raptor, rasper, repass, repast, report, repost, repots, repour, repros, respot, ropers, roupet, sapors, sapote, sapour, setups, soaper, sparer, spares, sparse, spates, spears, spores, sports, spouse, spouts, sprats, sprout, sprues, spurts, stapes, stoper, stopes, stoups, straps, streps, strops, stupas, stupes, stupor, supers, tapers, taupes, topers, tossup, trapes, tropes, troupe, upases, uprate, uprear, uproar, uprose, upsets, upsoar, uptear, uptore, and uptoss — 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 209 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pterosaurs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, outer, parts, pasts, pause, poets, and poses. For points, the strongest plays are opera, pareo, parer, pares, pareu, parrs, parse, parts, paseo, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pater, pates, pause, pears, peart, peats, pesos, pesto, pests, poets, pores, ports, poser, poses, posse, posts, pours, pouts, praos, prase, prate, prats, praus, presa, press, prest, proas, prose, pross, prost, pruta, psoae, psoas, purer, purrs, purse, puses, raper, rapes, rasps, reaps, repos, repot, repro, roper, ropes, roups, sapor, septa, septs, setup, soaps, soups, spaes, spare, spars, spate, spats, spear, spore, sport, spots, spout, sprat, sprue, spues, spurs, spurt, sputa, steps, stope, stops, stoup, strap, strep, strop, stupa, stupe, super, supes, supra, taper, tapes, tarps, taupe, tepas, apers, aport, apres, apses, apter, asper, erupt, estop, toper, topes, traps, trope, turps, and upset — 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 pterosaurs produces 185 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, auto, ours, part, pass, and past. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apos, apse, asps, atop, opas, opes, opts, opus, pare, parr, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pour, pout, prao, prat, prau, proa, pros, psst, pure, purr, purs, puss, puts, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, repo, reps, rope, roup, saps, seps, sept, soap, sops, soup, spae, spar, spas, spat, spot, spue, spur, step, stop, epos, supe, sups, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tope, tops, trap, trop, tups, upas, and urps — 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 pterosaurs turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apo, apt, asp, opa, ope, ops, opt, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pos, pot, pro, pst, pur, pus, put, rap, rep, sap, sop, spa, sup, tap, top, tup, upo, ups, and urp — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pterosaurs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, to, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
pterosaurs 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 one sense for pterosaurs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pterosaurs is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pterosaurs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are prosateurs and pterosaurs, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pterosaurs 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 pterosaurs produce 807 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 32 eight-letter words, 91 seven-letter words, 167 six-letter words, 209 five-letter words, 185 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.