Hidden inside portend sit portend and protend, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
portend and protend tie for the highest Scrabble score from portend at 10 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in portend: one comes from rearranging its letters, and portend 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 portend and protend, 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 portend turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deport, pernod, ponder, ported, proned, and redtop, 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portend. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depot, doper, dropt, opted, pedro, pored, roped, and toped, 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 portend produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, drop, nerd, nope, note, open, and poet. For points, the strongest plays are dope, dorp, drop, oped, pend, pond, and prod — 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 portend turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end, net, nor, not, one, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, 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 portend 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.
portend 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 portend. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
portend is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing portend unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are portend and protend, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from portend 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 portend produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.