Hidden inside report sit porter, pretor, and report, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
porter, pretor, and report tie for the highest Scrabble score from report at 8 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in report: two come from rearranging its letters, and report itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with report. For points, the strongest plays are porter, pretor, and report — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in report. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are repot, repro, roper and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in report produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poet, rope, and tore. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including poet, rope and pert.
Unscrambling report turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pet and pot. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including per, pet and pot.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in report. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in report 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.
report 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 thirteen senses for report. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
report is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing report unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are porter, pretor, and report, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from report 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 report produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.