Hidden inside raptors sit parrots and raptors, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parrots and raptors tie for the highest Scrabble score from raptors at 9 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in raptors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and raptors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parrots and raptors, 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 raptors turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parrot, pastor, and raptor, 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raptors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, roast, sport, strap, and traps. For points, the strongest plays are aport, parrs, parts, ports, praos, prats, proas, prost, sapor, sport, sprat, strap, strop, tarps, and traps — 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 raptors produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, part, past, post, pots, pros, and raps. For points, the strongest plays are apos, atop, opas, opts, parr, pars, part, past, pats, port, post, pots, prao, prat, proa, pros, raps, rapt, rasp, soap, spar, spat, spot, stop, taps, tarp, tops, 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 raptors turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, pot, pro, rap, rat, sat, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are apo, apt, asp, opa, ops, opt, par, pas, pat, pos, pot, pro, pst, rap, sap, sop, spa, 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 raptors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, 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 raptors 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.
raptors 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 one sense for raptors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
raptors is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raptors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parrots and raptors, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raptors 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 raptors produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.