Hidden inside pattern sit pattern and reptant, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pattern and reptant tie for the highest Scrabble score from pattern at 9 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pattern: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pattern itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pattern. For points, the strongest plays are pattern and reptant — 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 pattern turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent. For points, the strongest plays are arpent, enrapt, entrap, parent, patent, patten, patter, and trepan — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pattern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treat. For points, the strongest plays are apter, arpen, paren, paten, pater, peart, prate, taper, and trapt — 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 pattern produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, neat, part, rate, rent, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are aper, nape, neap, pane, pant, pare, part, pate, pean, pear, peat, pent, pert, prat, rape, rapt, reap, tape, tarp, tepa, and trap — 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 pattern turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, nap, pan, par, pat, pea, pen, per, pet, rap, rep, and tap — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pattern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 pattern 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.
pattern 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 ten senses for pattern. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pattern is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pattern unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pattern and reptant, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pattern 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 pattern produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.