Hidden inside spattering sit pretasting and spattering, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1012 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pretasting and spattering tie for the highest Scrabble score from spattering at 13 points. The top 10 of 1012 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in spattering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and spattering 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 pretasting and spattering, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spattering turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pattering, repasting, and trapesing, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, patients, patterns, starting, and treating. For points, the strongest plays are grapiest, partings, pettings, retaping, spatting, spearing, tapering, and trepangs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in spattering produces 126 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, nastier, panties, parents, parties, patient, and pattern. For points, the strongest plays are pargets, parings, parsing, parting, pasting, patting, petting, pingers, prating, rasping, reaping, spaeing, sparing, spinage, springe, tapings, and trepang — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spattering turns up 185 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, artist, easing, eating, giants, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are gapers, gasper, genips, grapes, gripes, pagers, parges, parget, paring, pinger, prangs, raping, sparge, sprang, spring, and taping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 271 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, pages, pains, paint, pairs, and pants. For points, the strongest plays are aping, pager, pages, pangs, parge, peags, pings, prang, prigs, spang, sprag, sprig, gaper, gapes, genip, grape, grasp, gripe, grips, and gript — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in spattering produces 237 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, apes, arts, nags, and naps. For points, the strongest plays are page, pang, peag, pegs, pigs, ping, prig, gape, gaps, gasp, gips, and grip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spattering turns up 119 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spattering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in spattering plus one additional letter.
spattering 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for spattering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
spattering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spattering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pretasting and spattering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spattering 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 spattering produce 1012 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 40 eight-letter words, 126 seven-letter words, 185 six-letter words, 271 five-letter words, 237 four-letter words, 119 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.