Hidden inside saltpetres sit saltpeters and saltpetres, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 729 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
saltpeters and saltpetres tie for the highest Scrabble score from saltpetres at 12 points. The top 10 of 729 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in saltpetres: one comes from rearranging its letters, and saltpetres itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are saltpeters and saltpetres, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling saltpetres turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pretastes, saltpeter, saltpetre, splatters, and sprattles, 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 39 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saltpetres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with platters and startles. For points, the strongest plays are palettes, partlets, peartest, peltasts, persalts, petrales, plasters, platters, pleasers, pleaters, prattles, prelates, presales, pretaste, pretests, psalters, relapses, replates, spatters, spelters, splatter, sprattle, staplers, tapeless, tapsters, and trapeses — 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 saltpetres produces 101 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easters, estates, letters, platter, relates, repeats, and settles. For points, the strongest plays are asperse, elapses, epaters, lapsers, leapers, palette, palters, pareses, partlet, pastels, pasters, patters, peltast, peltate, pelters, persalt, pertest, pesetas, pesters, pestles, petrale, petrels, petters, pettles, plaster, platers, platter, pleaser, pleases, pleater, prattle, prelate, presale, presets, pretest, psalter, relapse, repasts, repeals, repeats, replate, respelt, retapes, sapeles, septate, septets, serapes, sparest, spatter, spelter, stapler, staples, tapless, 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 saltpetres turns up 158 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, asleep, easter, erases, estate, and lasers. For points, the strongest plays are aptest, asleep, aspers, elapse, epater, etapes, lapser, lapses, leaper, lepers, palest, palets, palter, parles, parses, passee, passel, passer, pastel, paster, pastes, paters, pattee, patter, pearls, peases, pelter, perses, peseta, pester, pestle, petals, peters, petrel, petter, pettle, plater, plates, please, pleats, prases, prates, preset, prests, repass, repast, repeal, repeat, repels, retape, saleps, sapele, sepals, septal, septet, serape, sleeps, spales, spares, sparse, spates, spears, speels, speers, spelts, splats, sprats, sprees, stapes, staple, steeps, straps, streps, 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 192 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saltpetres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sales, salts, seals, seats, slaps, sleep, and slept. For points, the strongest plays are salep, salps, seeps, sepal, septa, septs, slaps, sleep, slept, spaes, spale, spare, spars, spate, spats, spear, speel, speer, spelt, splat, sprat, spree, steep, steps, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepal, tepas, apers, apres, apses, apter, asper, etape, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, leper, lepta, paler, pales, palet, pares, parle, parse, parts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pater, pates, peals, pearl, pears, peart, pease, peats, peels, peers, peles, pelts, perea, peres, perse, pests, petal, peter, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, prase, prate, prats, prees, presa, prese, press, prest, rapes, rasps, reaps, repel, 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 saltpetres produces 149 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, laps, last, late, leap, and less. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, asps, laps, larp, leap, lept, pale, pals, pare, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, peel, peer, pees, pele, pelt, pere, pert, pest, pets, plat, plea, prat, pree, psst, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, salp, saps, seep, seps, sept, slap, spae, spar, spas, 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 saltpetres turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. 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 saltpetres. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in saltpetres plus one additional letter.
saltpetres is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for saltpetres. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
saltpetres is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saltpetres unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are saltpeters and saltpetres, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saltpetres 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 saltpetres produce 729 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 39 eight-letter words, 101 seven-letter words, 158 six-letter words, 192 five-letter words, 149 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.