Hidden inside patrol sit patrol and portal, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patrol and portal tie for the highest Scrabble score from patrol at 8 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in patrol: one comes from rearranging its letters, and patrol itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: patrol and portal, worth 8 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patrol. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aport, parol, and polar, 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 patrol produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oral, part, plot, and trap. For points, the strongest plays are atop, larp, opal, part, plat, plot, port, prao, prat, proa, rapt, tarp, trap, 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 patrol turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, lap, lot, pal, pot, pro, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are alp, apo, apt, lap, lop, opa, opt, pal, par, pat, pol, pot, pro, rap, tap, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patrol. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, 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 patrol and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
patrol 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 four senses for patrol. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
patrol is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patrol unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patrol and portal, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patrol 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 patrol produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.