Hidden inside saltpeter sit saltpeter and saltpetre, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 519 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
saltpeter and saltpetre tie for the highest Scrabble score from saltpeter at 11 points. The top 10 of 519 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in saltpeter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and saltpeter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are saltpeter and saltpetre, 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 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saltpeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with platters. For points, the strongest plays are palettes, partlets, peartest, petrales, platters, pleaters, prattles, prelates, pretaste, replates, splatter, and sprattle — 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 saltpeter produces 52 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letters, platter, relates, repeats, and startle. For points, the strongest plays are epaters, leapers, palette, palters, partlet, patters, peltast, peltate, pelters, persalt, pertest, petrale, petrels, petters, pettles, plaster, platers, platter, pleaser, pleater, prattle, prelate, presale, pretest, psalter, relapse, repeals, repeats, replate, respelt, retapes, septate, spatter, spelter, stapler, and tapster — 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 saltpeter turns up 93 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, asleep, easter, estate, latest, and lattes. For points, the strongest plays are aptest, asleep, elapse, epater, etapes, lapser, leaper, lepers, palest, palets, palter, parles, pastel, paster, paters, pattee, patter, pearls, pelter, peseta, pester, pestle, petals, peters, petrel, petter, pettle, plater, plates, please, pleats, prates, preset, repast, repeal, repeat, repels, retape, sapele, septal, septet, serape, staple, tapers, tepals, and trapes — 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 147 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saltpeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, erase, laser, later, latte, and leaps. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, etape, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, leper, lepta, paler, pales, palet, pares, parle, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, peals, pearl, pears, peart, pease, peats, peels, peers, peles, pelts, perea, peres, perse, petal, peter, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, prest, rapes, reaps, repel, salep, sepal, septa, sleep, slept, spale, spare, spate, spear, speel, speer, spelt, splat, sprat, spree, steep, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepal, tepas, traps, 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 saltpeter produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, laps, last, late, leap, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, laps, larp, leap, lept, pale, pals, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, peel, peer, pees, pele, pelt, pere, pert, pest, pets, plat, plea, prat, pree, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, salp, seep, sept, slap, spae, spar, spat, step, tape, taps, 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 saltpeter turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, pal, par, pas, pat, pea, pee, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saltpeter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in saltpeter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in saltpeter and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
saltpeter 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 saltpeter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
saltpeter is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saltpeter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are saltpeter and saltpetre, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saltpeter 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 saltpeter produce 519 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 52 seven-letter words, 93 six-letter words, 147 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.