Hidden inside transpose sit patroness and transpose, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 690 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patroness and transpose tie for the highest Scrabble score from transpose at 11 points. The top 10 of 690 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in transpose: one comes from rearranging its letters, and transpose 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 patroness and transpose, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transpose. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senators. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including espartos, operants and pasterns.
Rearranging the letters in transpose produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parents, persons and posters. For points, 36 words tie at 9 points, including parents, persons and posters.
Unscrambling transpose turns up 123 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operas, parent and person. For points, 71 words tie at 8 points, including operas, parent and person.
There are 199 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transpose. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, noses and notes. For points, 102 words tie at 7 points, including opens, opera and pants.
Rearranging the letters in transpose produces 186 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and arts. For points, 81 words tie at 6 points, including apes, naps and nope.
Unscrambling transpose turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and are. For points, 29 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transpose. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in transpose plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in transpose 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.
transpose 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 eight senses for transpose. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
transpose is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing transpose unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are patroness and transpose, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from transpose 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 transpose produce 690 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 123 six-letter words, 199 five-letter words, 186 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.