Hidden inside patrons sit partons, patrons, and tarpons, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
partons, patrons, and tarpons tie for the highest Scrabble score from patrons at 9 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in patrons: two come from rearranging its letters, and patrons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are partons, patrons, and tarpons, 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 patrons turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aprons, pantos, parson, parton, pastor, patron, and tarpon, 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patrons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pants, parts, porns, roast, sport, strap, and traps. For points, the strongest plays are aport, apron, panto, pants, parts, porns, ports, praos, prats, proas, prost, sapor, sport, sprat, strap, strop, tarps, and traps — 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 patrons produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, naps, pans, part, past, and porn. For points, the strongest plays are apos, atop, naps, opas, opts, pans, pant, pars, part, past, pats, pons, porn, port, post, pots, prao, prat, proa, pros, raps, rapt, rasp, snap, soap, span, spar, spat, spot, stop, taps, tarp, tops, trap, and trop — 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 patrons turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art, nap, nor, not, pan, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are apo, apt, asp, nap, opa, ops, opt, pan, par, pas, pat, pos, pot, pro, pst, rap, sap, sop, spa, tap, and top — 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 patrons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in patrons and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
patrons 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 three senses for patrons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
patrons is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patrons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are partons, patrons, and tarpons, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from patrons 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 patrons produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.